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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 175 · Words: J.M.C. Crum
Now the Green Blade Rises
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →Written by J.M.C. Crum and first published in the Oxford Book of Carols (1928), this Easter hymn uses the image of grain dying and rising from dark earth as a metaphor for Christ's resurrection. Its refrain 'Love is come again like wheat arising green' has made it a beloved Easter carol worldwide.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
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