406. A little seed lay fast asleep
Clara Writer, 1859-1915
A song of growth under God’s daily care.
The lyric is a poetic description of the development of a seed from its first awakening to life under the touch of God’s sunshine, to the tall, fair plant with its golden ear of corn.
No biographical information is at hand concerning the author, Clara Writer.
MUSIC. KING’S LANGLEY. For comments on this tune see [Hymn 385].