“Bringing in the Sheaves” is a joyful, lilting tune by George Minor (1880) which has been in use for more than 140 years. The text by Knowles Shaw (1874) evokes a harvest scene, as expressed in the first verse:

Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,

Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;

Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.