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SDAH 175

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
What 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.

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Text

1
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
What 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,
Field of our hearts that dead and bare have been;
Love is come again like wheat arising green.

Hymn Info

Biblical Reference
(a) John 12:24 (b) Luke 23:53 (c) Luke 24:6, 7

Author
John M.C. Crum (1872-1958)

Performance Suggestions
Unison

Copyright
Words and arrangement from the Oxford Book of Carols by permission of Oxford University Press

Hymn Tune
NOEL NOUVELET

Metrical Number
11.10.10.11.

Arranged
Martin Shaw (1875-1958)

Tune Source
French carol