Text: | Now the Green Blade Rises |
Author: | John M. Crum (1872-1958) |
Tune: | NOËL NOUVELET |
Arranger: | Martin Shaw (1875-1958) |
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 | |
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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. |
ONE LICENSE: | 89902 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NOËL NOUVELET |
Arranger: | Martin Shaw (1875-1958) |
Meter: | 11.10.10.11. |
Incipit: | 15645 34453 21156 |
Key: | f minor |
Source: | French carol |