Easter 6th: Now The Green Blade Rises - CBW III 403

Join us on a musical journey through the seasons of Christ: Lent & Easter

Now The Green Blade Rises (1872nd year of our Lord)

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
Wheat the in dark earth, many days has lain.
Love lives again, that with the dead has been.
Love is come again like wheat arising green.

In the grave they laid him, love by hatred slain,
Thinking that he would never rise again.
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen.
Love is come again like wheat arising green.

Forth he came at Easter 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.

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.