Glory to God ‎#247

247. Now the Green Blade Rises

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Text Information

• First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain
• Title: Now the Green Blade Rises
• Author: John M. C. Crum (1928, alt.)
• Refrain First Line: love is come again
• Meter: 11.10.10.11
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Matthew 27:57-28:8
  ;
  Mark 4:28
  ;
  Mark 15:46
  ;
  Mark 16:1-8
  ;
  Luke 23:50-24:12
  ;
  John 11:25-26
  ;
  John 12:20-33
  ;
  John 19:42
  ;
  John 20:1-18
  ;
  1 Corinthians 15:20-22
  ;
  Ephesians 2:5
• Topic: Christian Year: Easter Vigil; Christian Year: Resurrection/Easter; Grief; Jesus Christ: Resurrection; Renewal; Christian Year: Easter
• Copyright: © 1928 Oxford University Press
• ONE LICENSE: 89902

Tune Information

• Name: NOËL NOUVELET
• Harmonizer: Martin F. Shaw (1928)
• Meter: 11.10.10.11
• Key: e minor
• Source: French carol, 15th cent.
• Copyright: Harm. © 1928 Oxford University Press

Text Information:

Although there were some traditional Easter carols, this hybrid one has been created by grafting a 20th-century English text onto a late 15th-century French tune. The allegory of the dying and rising grain as a parallel for Christ’s Resurrection is probably based on John 12:24.