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Pleasing spring again is here! Spring
John Newton printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book II, no. 33.
WRITTEN BY
John Newton 1725–1807
PRINTED
1779 Olney Hymns · no. 33
METRE
7.7.7.7 5 stanzas
WRITTEN ON
A subject no verse printed above it
The hymn, and the Scripture in it
All 5 stanzas as Newton printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.
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STANZA I
Pleasing spring again is here
Pleasing spring again is here!
Trees and fields in bloom appear;
Hark! the birds, with artless lays,
Warble their Creator’s praise!
Where, in winter, all was snow,
Now the flow’rs in clusters grow;
And the corn, in green array, corn : i.e. wheat
Promises a harvest–day.
No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.
The passage it draws on most
Its book prints no verse above this hymn. Of the verses its lines share most wording with, this is the one the whole hymn draws on, chosen by an AI model from those the word matching found. Not the author's own heading.
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit. JEREMIAH 17:8 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE OPEN IT BESIDE THE PAGE
Its place in the book
Book II of the hymn book, “On occasional subjects”, holds these hymns in this order: 100 hymns. This is number 33. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.
NO. 33 · JOHN NEWTON · THIS HYMN Pleasing spring again is here!
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