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573 Harpeth Valley

Words: Samuel Longfellow, 1864

Music: A. M. Cagle, 1966

Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)

Copyright: 1966 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Where prophet’s word and martyr’s blood
And prayers of saints were sown,
We to their labors ent’ring in
Would reap where they have strown.

O Thou whose call our hearts has stirred!
To do Thy will we come,
Thrust in our sickles at Thy word
And bear our harvest home.