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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 311 · Words: J. M. C. Crum · Tune: FRENCH CAROL

Now the Green Blade Riseth

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An Easter carol written by J. M. C. Crum in 1928 and published in the Oxford Book of Carols. It draws on the agricultural metaphor of wheat rising from buried grain to proclaim Christ's resurrection, with the refrain 'Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.'

Verse 1

Now the green blade riseth,
from the buried grain,
wheat that in the
dark earth
many days has lain;

Love lives again,
that with the
dead has been:

Verse 2

In the grave they laid him,
Love who had been slain,
thinking that he never
would awake again,

laid in the earth
like grain that
sleeps unseen:

Verse 3

Forth he came at Easter,
like the risen grain,
Jesus who for three days
in the grave had lain;

quick from the dead
my risen Lord is seen:

Verse 4

When our hearts
are wintry,
grieving, or in pain,
Jesus’ touch can call us
back to life again,

fields of our hearts
that dead and
bare have been:

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