Lo, How a Rose
Music & Text: German Carol; harmonized by Michael Praetorius
- 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 Savior
When half spent was the night.
