Lyrics

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming
As those of old have sung
It came a flow'ret 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 us a Savior
When half spent was the night

O Flow'r, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air
Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness ev'rywhere
True man, yet very God
From endless death He saves us
And lightens ev'ry load

(Instrumental)
It came a flow'ret bright
Amid the cold of winter
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