Lo How a Rose Is Blooming
      
   Lo, how e’er rose is blooming
 
 From tender stem has sprung
 
 Of Jesse’s lineage coming
 
 As all along was sung
 
  
  Well it came, a flower bright
 
 Amid the cold of winter
 
 When half spent was the night
 
 When half spent was the night
  
 
 Isaiah had foretold it
 
 The Rose I have in mind
 
 With Mary we behold it
 
 The humble mother kind
  
 
 To show God’s love in sight
 
 She bore to us a Savior
 
 When half spent was the night
 
 When half spent was the night
  
 
 Flower with fragrance tender
 
 That sweetness fills the air
 
 Holds with glorious splendor
 
 The light and dark we share
  
 
 Bring us at length we pray
 
 Ever rooted ever changed
 
 And into the endless day
 
 And into the endless day