"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come"

In his sermon on Worship Anew a couple weeks ago, Pastor Jonker alluded to Mark 4:28:  "'The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.'"  The day after I watched the program, I was thinking about "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come," in which Mark 4:28 is paraphrased in the second verse:  "First the blade and then the ear, / Then the full corn shall appear."  These lines are sung to these musical phrases from the tune "St. George's, Windsor":

I realized that because the melody generally ascends, there's a musical representation of the plant's growth.