New Seeds Will Be Sown

Bring in the harvest sheaves, and store Them safely, on the barn's stone floor. Let all who've worked to stack and bind, On the farmhouse table, their cider, find. They will heartily cheer the farmer's thanks, Then get up to some quite jovial pranks, While celebrating a long and hard day's reap, Before falling soundly off to sleep. The winter's grain is home and bound, Taken with skill from the fertile ground. And in time some new seeds will be sown, As soon as the frost, snow and ice have flown. The fields are left, just with rough stubble now, Ready for furrows to be cut by the plough. Next year these crops will grow once again, Helped by the Lord, his sunbeams and rain.