Couplet 1

Lo how a rose e'er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung

Couplet 2

Of Jesse's lineage coming
As men of old have sung

Refrain 1

It came a flower bright
Amid the cold of winter
When half-spent was the night

Couplet 3

Isaiah twas foretold it
The rose
I have in mind

Couplet 4

With Mary we behold it
The virgin mother kind

Refrain 2

To show God's love aright
She bore to men a Savior
When half spent was the night

Couplet 5

This flower whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air

Couplet 6

Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness everywhere

Refrain 3

True man yet very God
From sin and death He saves us
And lightens every load