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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>YE SONS OF EARTH PREPARE THE PLOUGH</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The sower soweth the Word.” Mark 4:14</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_o_cowper_w.html" target="_blank">William Cowper</a>, <em>Olney Hymns</em> (London: W. Oliver, 1779).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “St. James,” Raphael Courteville, 1697 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stjames.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Ye sons of earth prepare the plough,<br>
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Break up your fallow ground!<br>
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The Sower is gone forth to sow,<br>
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And scatter blessings round.</p>
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<p>The seed that finds a stony soil<br>
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Shoots forth a hasty blade;<br>
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But ill repays the sower’s toil,<br>
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Soon withered, scorched, and dead.</p>
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<p>The thorny ground is sure to balk<br>
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All hopes of harvest there;<br>
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We find a tall and sickly stalk,<br>
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But not the fruitful ear.</p>
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<p>The beaten path and highway side<br>
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Receive the trust in vain;<br>
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The watchful birds the spoil divide,<br>
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And pick up all the grain.</p>
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<p>But where the Lord of grace and power<br>
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Has blessed the happy field,<br>
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How plenteous is the golden store<br>
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The deep wrought furrows yield!</p>
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<p>Father of mercies, we have need<br>
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Of Thy preparing grace;<br>
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Let the same hand that gives me seed<br>
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Provide a fruitful place!</p>
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