SDA Hymnal 95
Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers
Words: Thomas BlackburnMusic: Medieval French melodyTune: Tempus Adest Floridum7.6.7.6.D
1Spring has now unwrapped the flowers,
Day is fast reviving,
Life in all her growing powers
Towards the light is striving:
Gone the iron touch of cold,
Winter time and frost time,
Seedlings, working through the mould,
Now make up for lost time.
2Herb and plant that winter long
Slumbered at their leisure,
Now bestirring, green and strong,
Find in growth their pleasure:
All the world with beauty fills,
Gold the green enhancing;
Flowers make glee among the hills,
Set the meadows dancing.
3Through each wonder of fair days
God Himself expresses;
Beauty follows all His ways,
As the world He blesses:
So, as He renews the earth,
Artist without rival,
In His grace of glad new birth
We must seek revival.
- Words
- Thomas Blackburn
- Meter
- 7.6.7.6.D
The verse
- Meter
- 8.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 · the hymnal prints 7.6.7.6.D
- Foot
- trochaic (DUM-da) · 76% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- ABABCDCD
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