Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming

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

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

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   It came a  flow'ret bright, amid the cold of winter,

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   When half-spent was the night.


2. Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the Rose | have in mind,
   With Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind.
   To show God's love aright, she bore to men a Savoir
   When half-spent was the night.


3. This Flow'r, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,
   Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness ev'rywhere.
   True man, yet very God; from sin and death He saves us,
   And lightens ev'ry load.