Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming may sound esoteric, which may be more of an indication that poetic imagery and broader understanding of Scriptural allusion are less commonly understood.
Linda Ronstadt provides an ethereal rendition. It only has the first two verses, I’m okay with verse two and its reference to Isaiah being included, though I’m sad not to hear reference to ‘true man and very God, from sin and death he saves us’.
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 flower bright,
Amid the cold of winter
When half-gone 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-gone was the night.
3
This Flower, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness everywhere.
True man, yet very God,
From sin and death He saves us
And lightens every load
