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The Christmas Rose
My family read a poem from the 1400's that I remember as especially beautiful. My father's music collection included a tape from the old world with it sung by choral voices that sounded like angels above.

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A Rose has sprung from a tender root,
From Jesus, as those of old have sung,
And it bore a flower,
in the middle of a cold winter,
When helf spent was the night.

Isaiah foretold it, the Rose I have in mind;
Is Mary the pure, the little flower has brought us.
From God's eternal wisdon, she bore a child,
And remained pure.

The Flower, so small, whose sweet fragrance
fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness
everywhere;
True man and truer God, helps us out of all sorrows,
Saves from sin and death.

Oh Jesus, until we leave this misery,
Let your help guide us into joy,
In Your Father's Kingdon, where we eternally praise You.
Oh God, allow us this.

Translated from the early 15th century German poem "Es ist ein Ros' Entsprungen." Author unknown. The music is from the Alte Katholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1599 (Old Catholic Spiritual Church Songs)

Es ist ein Ros' Entsprungen
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen,
aus einer Wurzel zart,
Wie uns die Alten sungen, von Jesus kam die Art,
Und hat ein Blümlein bracht mitten im kalten
Winter
Wohl zu der halben Nacht.

Das Röslein, das ich meine, davon Jesaias sagt,
Ist Maria die Reine uns das Blümlein bracht.
Aus Gottes ew'gen Rat hat sie ein Kind geboren
Und blieb ein' reine Magd.

Das Blümelein, so kleine, das duftet uns so süß,
Mit seinem hellen Scheine vertreibt's die
Finsternis.
Wahr' Mensch und wahrer Gott, hilft uns aus allen Leiden,
Rettet von Sünd' und Tod.

O Jesu, bis zum Scheiden aus diesem Jammertal
Laß Dein hilf uns geleiten hin in den Freudensaal,
In Deines Vaters Reich, da wir Dich ewig loben.
O Gott, uns das verleih.

As we remember Europe in the 1400's was the time of the Black Plague, we feel even more the power of this poem and it's message of hope to all who suffer.