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I can’t believe it’s already Christmas. I love the holiday season, and I have to admit that I get a little depressed the closer we get to the “big day,” because I don’t want to season to be over. Everybody’s house is always decorated nice, there’s always good music on the radio, and it’s just generally my favorite time of year. Of course this year it’s been tough to get int othe Christmas Spirit considering the tropical weather we’ve had (61 in December in Virginia is tropical, let’s get that straight).
At any rate, I thought I’d share one of my favorite classical Christmas pieces as a way of saying “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Holidays,” or “Best Wishes” to any readers.
Lyrics first in English, then in German:
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming,
As men of old have sung.
It came, a flow’ret bright,
Amid the cold of winter,
When half-spent was the night.
Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
The rose I have in mind,
With Mary we behold it.
The Virgin mother kind.
To show God’s love aright
She bore to them a Savior,
When half-spent was the night.
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Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
Aus einer Wurzel zart.
Wie uns die Alten sungen,
Aus Jesse kam die Art
Und hat ein Blumlein bracht,
Mitten im kalten Winter,
Wohl zu der halben Nacht.
Das Roslein das ich meine,
Davon Jesaias sagt:
Maria ist’s, die Reine,
Die uns das Blumlein bracht:
Aus Gottes ewigem Rat
Hat sie ein Kindlein g’boren
Bleibend ein reine Magd.
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