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
The rose I have in mind
With Mary we behold it
The Virgin Mother kind
To show God's love aright
She bore to men a Saviour
When half spent was the night

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

MIDI and info from Central Valley Christian School
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The author of lyrics of this early 15th Century German carol is lost
in antiquity. The words of the first two stanzas were translated by
Theodore Baker in 1894. Stanzas 3-4 were translated by Harriet Reynolds
Krauth (1845-1925).

The Music, "Es Ist Ein Ros", comes from Alte Catholische Geistliche
Kirchengesäng, 1599. Harmony was added to the melody by Michael
Praetorius in 1609. You may recognize the tune also as A Great
and Mighty Wonder.