SDA Hymnal 175
Now the Green Blade Rises
Words: John Macleod Campbell CrumMusic: Traditional French carolTune: Noël Nouvelet11.10.11.10
1Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
2In the grave they laid Him, love by hatred slain,
Thinking that He never would wake again;
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
3Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
4When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
Your touch can call us back to life again;
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
- Tune
- Noël Nouvelet
- Meter
- 11.10.11.10
- Scripture
- John 12:24; 1 Corinthians 15:35-44
The verse
- Meter
- 11.10.10.11 · the hymnal prints 11.10.11.10
- Foot
- trochaic (DUM-da) · 50% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- AABC
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