1. LO, HOW A ROSE EER BLOOMING

2. Lo, how a Rose eer blooming from tender stem hath sprung, of Jesses lineage coming as saints of old have sung.

3. It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, when half-spent was the night.

4. Isaiah twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; with Mary we behold it, the virgin mother kind.

5. To show Gods love aright she bore to us a Savior, when half- spent was the night.

6. Lo, how a Rose eer blooming, from tender stem hath sprung, of Jesses lineage coming as saints of old hath sung.

7. To show His, love aright God gave to us a Savior, when half- spent was the night

8. Lo, how a Rose eer blooming.