Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming

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Title: Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Text: v.1-2 anonymous, 1599; v.3 Friedrich Layritz, 1599 tr. v.1-2 Theodore Baker, 1894; v.3 Harriet Spaeth, 1875; alt.
Tune: ES IST EIN ROS'
Music: Michael Praetorius, 1609
Key: F major
Meter: 76.76.676
Date Added: 2021/01/12

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Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming from tender stem has sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming as saints of old have sung.
It came a flow'ret bright, amid the cold of winter,
when halfspent was the night.

Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the 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 halfspent was the night.

Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,
dispel in glorious splendor the darkness ev'rywhere.
Human, yet very God, from sin and death he saves us,
and lightens ev'ry load.