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Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming is on a few of my Christmas albums. It’s an English language translation of German lyrics, accompanied by the tune Es Ist Ein’ Ros’ Entsprungen, as arranged by Michael Praetorius.
I think I’ll spend a few days looking at a some of these lesser known ‘nursery’ sort of carols.
It doesn’t say everything about the incarnation and redemption, but what it does say it says well.

The lyrics:
1
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
from tender stem 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.
2
Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
the Rose I have in mind;
with Mary we behold it,
the Virgin Mother kind.
To show God’s love aright,
she bore to men a Savior,
when half spent was the night.
3
The shepherds heard the story,
proclaimed by angels bright,
how Christ,the Lord of glory,
was born on earth this night.
To Bethlehem they sped
and in the manger found him,
as angel heralds said.
4
This flow’r, whose fragrance tender
with sweetness fills the air,
dispels with glorious splendor
the darkness ev’rywhere.
True man yet very God,
from sin and death he saves us,
and lightens ev’ry load.
5
O Savior, child of Mary,
who felt our human woe;
O Savior, King of glory,
who dost our weakness know,
bring us at length, we pray,
to the bright courts of heaven
and to the endless day.

The rendition in the youtube below by Ordinary Time features the first, second and last verses.
It’s from their album In The Town Of David.

Nathan Clark George also has a version on his album A Midwinters Eve