From Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard: Words Edition* (Norwich: Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1983), page 370.


GOD'S FARM
John Arlott (1914-91)

1. God, whose farm is all creation,
Take the gratitude we give;
Take the finest of our harvest,
Crops we grow that men may live.

2. Take our ploughing, seeding, reaping,
Hopes and fears of sun and rain,
All our thinking, planning, waiting,
Ripened in this fruit and grain.

3. All our labour, all our watching,
All our calendar of care,
In these crops of your creation,
Take, O God: they are our prayer.

[* I suppose that means there is also a "music edition."]