Lyrics Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Mahalia Jackson

Lo, how a rose e′r blooming
From tender stem hath sprung
Of Jessie's lineage coming
As men of old hath sung
It came a floweret bright
When half spent was the night.
Isaiah ′twas foretold it
The rose I have in mind
With Mary we behold it
Thy virgin mother kind
To shew God's love a right
She bore to men a Savior
When half spent was the night.