Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming Top Pick
For Unaccompanied SATB Choir - a nifty Renaissance setting of Es ist ein' Ros in English, edited by Carl Johengen. The canon is easy (your choir already knows it) and the ending is homophonic. Perfect for Lessons and Carols. Learning Tracks are available and can be accessed from the downloaded .pdf.
Lo how a rose e'er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung.
Of Jesse's lineage coming
As seers of old have sung.
It came a blossom 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 us a Savior,
When half spent was the night.
O Flow'r, whose fragrance tender
with sweetness fills the air,
dispel in glorious splendor the darkness everywhere;
true man, yet very God,
from sin and death now save us,
and share our every load.