Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal ‎#175

175. Now the Green Blade Rises

1 Now 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.

2 In the grave they laid Him, love by hatred slain,
Thinking that He would never wake again,
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen;
Love is come again like wheat arising green.

3 Forth He came in triumph, 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.

4 When 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

Text Information

• First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain
• Title: Now the Green Blade Rises
• Author: John M. Crum (1872-1958)
• Meter: 11.10.10.11.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Topic: Jesus Christ: Resurrection and Ascension
• Copyright: Words and arrangement from the Oxford Book of Carols by permission of Oxford University Press.
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Tune Information

• Name: NOËL NOUVELET
• Arranger: Martin Shaw (1875-1958)
• Meter: 11.10.10.11.
• Incipit: 15645 34453 21156
• Key: f minor
• Source: French carol