"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is an English Christian harvest festival hymn written in 1844 by Henry Alford. It is most often sung to the tune St. George's Windsor by George Job Elvey.
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Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops. Reaping is the cutting
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
…later gained popularity in the United States where it is used as part of Thanksgiving celebrations. The first verse is written as a celebration of the harvest, calling for people to give thanks to God for it. The last two verses are based on the Parable of the Tares, and discuss the last harvest at the Second…
Harvesting in Volgograd Oblast, State farm
Straw in a field in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Some people use their own animals for harvesting their crops
Harvesting maize field in Rantasalmi, South Savo, Finland