- Lo, how a rose e’re blooming
 From tenderstem 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 beheld it,
 The virgin mother kind.
 To show God’s love aright
 She bore to them a Savior,
 When half spent was the night.

 
 