247. Now the Green Blade Rises

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Text Information
First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain
Title: Now the Green Blade Rises
Author: John M. C. Crum (1928, alt.)
Refrain First Line: love is come again
Meter: 11.10.10.11
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Christian Year: Easter Vigil; Christian Year: Resurrection/Easter; Grief (3 more...)
Copyright: © 1928 Oxford University Press
ONE LICENSE: 89902
Tune Information
Name: NOËL NOUVELET
Harmonizer: Martin F. Shaw (1928)
Meter: 11.10.10.11
Key: e minor
Source: French carol, 15th cent.
Copyright: Harm. © 1928 Oxford University Press


Text Information:

Although there were some traditional Easter carols, this hybrid one has been created by grafting a 20th-century English text onto a late 15th-century French tune. The allegory of the dying and rising grain as a parallel for Christ’s Resurrection is probably based on John 12:24.


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