There is a flower

"There is a flower" by John Rutter, from the final set of the 2010 GALA, December 9th at Trinity Cathedral Miami.
Singers: Kristen DiNonno, Karen Neal, Kathleen Hollingsworth, Jen Maer Macias,
William Carney, Jarod C. Smith, Michael Irvin, Timothy Lester.
Directed by Matthew Steynor

There is a flower sprung of a tree,
The root thereof is called Jesse,
A flower of price;
There is none such in paradise.

This flower is fair and fresh of hue.
It fadeth never, but ever is new;
The blessed branch this flower on grew
Was Mary mild that bare Jesu;
A flower of grace;
Against all sorrow it is solace.

The seed hereof was Goddes sand,
That God himself sowed with his hand,
In Nazareth that holy land,
Amidst her arbour a maiden found;
This blessed flow'r
Sprang never but in Mary's bower.

When Gabriel this maid did meet,
With 'Ave Maria' he did her greet;
Between them two this flower was set
And safe was kept, no man should wit,
Till on a day In Bethlehem
it could spread and spray.

When that fair flow'r began to spread
And his sweet blossom began to bed,
Then rich and poor of every land
Marvelled how this flower might spread.
Till kinges three
That blessed flower came to see.
Alleluia.

Angels there came from heaven's tower
To look upon this freshele flower,
How fair he was in his colour
And how sweet in his savour;
And to behold
How such a flow'r might spring in gold.

There is a flow'r sprung of a tree,
The root there of is called Jesse,
A flow'r of price
There is none such in paradise.

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[illicitxlies]

Sooooo beautiful!