Misc Christmas – Lo How A Rose Eer Blooming (Guitar)

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Lo, how a Rose e’er bloom-ing from tender stem hath sprung!

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Of Jesse’s line-age co - ming, as men of old have sung.

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It came, a floweret bright,

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Amid the cold of win-ter, When half spent was the night.

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Isaiah ’twas fore-told it, the Rose I have in mind;

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With Mary we be-hold it, the vir-gin mother kind.

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To show God’s love aright,

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She bore to men a  Sa-vior, When half spent was the night.

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The shepherds heard the sto  ry  pro -claimed by angels bright,

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How Christ, the Lord of glo - ry  was born on earth this night.

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To Bethle-hem they sped

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And in the man-ger found Him, As angel heralds said.

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This Flower, whose frag-rance ten - der  with sweetness fills the air,

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Dispels with glor-ious splen-dor the darkness everywhere;

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True Man, yet very God,

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From sin and death He saves us, And lightens ev-ery load.

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O Savior, Child of   Ma-ry, who felt our human woe,

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O Savior, King of  glor - y,   who dost our weakness know;

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Bring us at length we pray,

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To the bright courts of  Hea-ven, And to the endless day!