1 Some are sowing their seed in the daylight fair,
They are sowing seed in the noonday’s glare;
They are sowing seed in the soft twilight,
They are sowing their seed in the solemn night.

Refrain:
What shall the harvest be?
What shall the harvest be?
What shall the harvest be?
What shall the harvest be?

2 Some are sowing their seed both of word and deed,
Which the cold know not, nor the careless heed;
With a ceaseless hand in the earth they sow,
And the fields all are whitening where’er they go. [Refrain]

3 Whether sown in the darkness, or sown in light,
Whether sown in weakness, or sown in might;
Whether sown in meekness, or sown in wrath,
In the broadest highway or the shadowy path. [Refrain]