Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday in the United States and is celebrated the last Thursday during the month in November every year. The Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper sends Thanksgiving Day wishes to you and yours. May you enjoy family, friends, the good things of life and may you be abundantly thankful for this Thanksgiving season. Now, please enjoy this Thanksgiving Day Poem. Happy Thanksgiving!
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 Thanksgiving Poem
The sun hath shed its kindly light,
Our harvesting is gladly o’er
Our fields have felt no killing blight,
Our bins are filled with goodly store.
From pestilence, fire, flood, and sword,
We have been spared by thy decree,
And now with humble hearts, O Lord,
We come to pay our thanks to thee.
We feel that had our merits been,
The measure of thy gifts to us,
We erring children, born of sin,
Might not now be rejoicing thus.
No deed of our hath brought us grace,
When thou were nigh our sight was dull,
We hid in trembling from thy face,
But thou, O God, wert merciful.
Thy mighty hand o’er all the land,
Hath still been open to bestow,
Those blessings which our wants demand,
From heaven, whence all blessings flow.
Thou hast, with ever watchful eye,
Looked down on us with holy care,
And from thy storehouse in the sky,
Hast scattered plenty everywhere.
Then lift we up our songs of praise,
To thee, O Father, good and kind,
To thee we consecrate our days,
Be thine the temple of each mind.
With incense sweet our thanks ascend,
Before thy works our powers pall,
Though we should strive years without end,
We could not thank thee for them all.
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Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday in the United States and is celebrated the last Thursday during the month in November every year. The Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper sends Thanksgiving Day wishes to you and yours. May you enjoy family, friends, the good things of life and may you be abundantly thankful for this Thanksgiving season. Now, please enjoy this Thanksgiving Day Poem. Happy Thanksgiving!
We feel that had our merits been,
