Book of Song

Now the Green Blade Rises

by trad

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

In the grave they laid Him, love whom we had slain,
Thinking that He’d never wake to life again,
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen;
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

Up He sprang at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Up from the dead, my risen Lord is seen;
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

When our hearts are weary, grieving, or in pain,
By Your touch You call us back to life again
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been;
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.