[Intro]

[Verse 1]
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Lo, how a Rose e’er bloom-ing
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from tender stem hath sprung!
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Of Jesse’s line-age co - ming
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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
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When half spent was the night.

[Verse 2]
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Isaiah ’twas fore-told it
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The Rose I have in mind;
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With Mary we be-hold it
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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
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When half spent was the night.

[Verse 3]
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The shepherds heard the sto-ry
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Pro-claimed by angels bright
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How Christ, the Lord of glo - ry
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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
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As  angel heralds said.

[Verse 4]
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This Flower, whose frag-rance ten-der
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with sweetness fills the air,
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Dispels with glor-ious splen-dor
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the darkness everywhere;
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True Man, yet very God,
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From sin and death He saves us,
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And lightens every load.

[Verse 5]
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O Savior, Child of   Ma-ry,
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Who felt our human woe,
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O Savior, King of  glor - y,
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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,
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And to the endless day!