Anonymous (16th Century). A Lovely Rose Is Sprung. Margarete Munsterberg, ed., trans. 1916. A Harvest of German Verse

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Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

A Lovely Rose Is Sprung

Anonymous (16th Century)


A LOVELY rose is sprung,
Out of a tender root,
As men of old have sung,
From Jesse’s stem a shoot.
And so a flower bright	5
Has bloomed in coldest winter
E’en in the deepest night.

The little rose I mean
Whereof Isaiah told,
Pure Mary, maid serene	10
Brought forth alone—behold:
Through God’s eternal might
A little child she bore us
E’en in the deepest night.