Will You Be Found Among the Wheat?

DESCRIPTION: "If death should take you unawares, Would you be found among the tares, Or would your happy joyous feet Be standing there among the wheat?" "The tares will all be burned with fire." "Hasten, sinner, delay no more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (Huntington-TheGam-MoreSongsWhalemenSang)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad warning
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Huntington-TheGam-MoreSongsWhalemenSang, pp. 362-363, "Will You Be Found Among the Wheat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #27558
NOTES [123 words]: A reference to the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, Matthew 13:24-30: A farmer sows good seed, but "an enemy" throws in seeds of weeds (Greek ζιζανιον, zizanion, a word found in the New Testament only in this chapter of Matthew. It is sometimes understood a "darnel," but translated "tares" in the King James Version) as well. The farmer's servants ask whether to pull out the weeds, but the farmer says to wait (I read somewhere that tares were a particular sort of weed that closely resembled young wheat, so it would be hard to pull just the tares, but I suspect this was just another of those interpretations by a preacher trying to make a point). At harvest-time, the wheat goes into the farmer's barn but the weeds are burned. - RBW
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