Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!

Of Jesse's lineage coming, as men of old have sung.

It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter,

When half spent was the night.

Isaiah 'twas foretold it, this Rose I have in mind;

With Mary we behold it, the virgin mother kind.

To show God's love aright, she bore to us a Savior,

When half spent was the night.

This Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,

Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness everywhere;

True Man, yet very God, from sin and death He saves us,

And lightens every load.

O Savior, Child of Mary, Who felt our human woe,

O Savior, King of glory, Who dost our weakness know;

Bring us at length we pray, to the bright courts of Heaven,

And to the endless day!