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Telling of Tares

Tune: St George\'s, Windsor

(\'Come, ye thankful people, come\')

Matthew 13 v.36-43

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Parable of the tares told

Jesus did it there unfold

To disciples, said that he

Who sows the seed, He* it be (*the Son of man)

And the field it be the world

Explanation now unfurled

Good seed children of kingdom

Tares children of wicked one

 

Enemy that the tares sowed

Is the devil, he bestowed

Them, and harvest is the end

Of the world, when reapers tend

They be the angels, servants

Awaiting the Lord\'s words thence

To gather tares and them burn

In the fire, with no return

 

So it shall be in the end

Of the world, the Lord shall send

Forth His angels, they work do

Harvest is their sight, their view

Gathering out of kingdom

All that offend, not just some

And them which continue sin

Who do no good deeds therein

 

They cast them into furnace

Of fire, weeping, anguish this

Their state, but then the righteous

Shall shine as the sun, e\'en us

If by grace counted among

The righteous, let praise be sung

Shining in the kingdom e\'er

Of their Father they shall share