Easter
I'm a church organist, so this past week was a bit busy - two services on Palm Sunday, one on Maundy Thursday, and one yesterday on Easter. Of course, I always try to pick music that goes with the sermon and the season. Yesterday, I chose Variations on Now the Green Blade Riseth for my offertory. It's a lovely tune, but there's a Christmas carol that's sung to the same melody, so my family was singing the Christmas carol all day. :(
Here are the lyrics to the Easter song. It's in our hymnal, but it's not one I ever remember singing in a service.
Now the Green Blade Riseth
Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,
Wheat that in dark earth many days 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 men had slain,
Thinking that never he would wake again.
Laid in the earth like grain...