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% This file is a part of the Open Hymnal Project to create a freely 
% distributable, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual 
% songs, and prelude/postlude music.  This music is to be distributed 
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% a printed church hymnal.
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% Open Hymnal Project, 2010 Edition
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%OHSCRIP Is 11:1-10, Mt 1:20-21, Heb 2:14-15, Lk 2:1-18
%OHTOPICS {Angels [3]}, {Christmas/Advent}, {Comfort}, {Darkness, Spiritual [4]}, {Evening [1-3]}, {God, Faithfulness of [1,2]}, {Jesus}, {Joy}, {Praise, Son}, {Presence}, {Promises (see also Gospel) [1,2]}, {Reverence}
%OHCATEGORY CHRISTMAS
%OHMETRICAL 7 6 7 6 6 7 6
%OHCOMPLEXITY 3
%OHCOMPOSER from Altes Catholische Geistliche Kirchengeseng, Köln, 1599
%OHARRANGER Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621)
%OHAUTHOR German;Layriz, Fridrich (1808-1859)
%OHTRANSLATOR Baker, Theodore (1851-1934);Krauth, Harriet Reynolds (1845-1925);Spaeth, Harriet Reynolds (1845-1925);Mattes, John Casper (1876-1948)
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X: 1
T: Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
C: Words: verses 1-2, 15th Century German.  Translated by Theodore Baker, 1894. 
C: verses 3,4 Fridrich Layriz (1808-1859).  Translated by Harriet Reynolds Krauth, 1875. 
C: verse 5, 15th Century German.  Translated by John C. Mattes, 1914.
C: Music: 'Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Rhythmic)' German from Köln, 1599.  Setting: Michael Praetorius, 1609.
C: copyright: public domain.  This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2010 Revision.
S: Music source: The English Hymnal, 1906.  Hymn 19
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w: 1.~Lo, how a Rose e'er bloom- ing from ten- der stem hath sprung! 
w: 2.~Is- ai- ah 'twas fore- told it, the Rose I have in mind; 
w: 3.~The shep- herds heard the sto- ry pro- claimed by an- gels bright, 
w: 4.~This Flow'r, whose fra- grance ten- der with sweet- ness fills the air, 
w: 5.~O Sa- vior, Child of Ma- ry, who felt our hu- man woe, 
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w: Of Jes- se's lin- eage com- ing, as men of old have sung. 
w: With Mar- y we be- hold it, the vir- gin mo- ther kind. 
w: How Christ, the Lord of glor- y was born on earth this night. 
w: Dis- pels with glor- ious splen- dor the dark- ness ev- ery- where; 
w: O Sa- vior, King of glo- ry, who dost our weak- ness know; 
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w: It came, a flow'r- et bright, a- mid the 
w: To show God's love a- right, she bore to 
w: To Beth- le- hem they sped and in the 
w: True Man, yet ve- ry God, from sin and 
w: Bring us at length we pray, to the bright 
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w: cold of win- ter, When half spent was the night. 
w: men a Sa- vior, When half spent was the night. 
w: man- ger found Him, As an- gel her- alds said. 
w: death He saves us, And light- ens ev- 'ry load. 
w: courts of Hea- ven, And to the end- less day! 
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