Lo, how a rose e'er blooming

From tender stem hath sprung

Of Jesse's lineage coming

By ancient sibyls sung A rose doth bear a flower

All in the cold midwinter

And at the midnight hour And he waits for who to find

The heart she left behind

He prays she'll find her way

To be his bride someday Ivy of all the trees in the wood, holly wants the rose

Holly and the ivy when they are both full grown

Of all the trees in the wood holly bears the crown

Holly and the ivy, the running of the deer

For his rose to bloom holly waits every year He waits for who to find

The heart she left behind

He prays she'll find her way

To be his bride someday Ivy of all the trees in the wood, holly wants the rose

Holly and the ivy when they are both full grown

Of all the trees in the wood holly bears the crown

The holly and the ivy, the running of the deer

For his rose to bloom holly waits every year

For his rose to bloom holly waits every year, waits every year Lo, how a rose e'er blooming

From tender stem hath sprung

The frozen air perfuming that tiny bloom doth swell

Its rays the night illuming, the darkness quite dispel Oh, flower beyond compare

Bloom in our heart's midwinter

Restore the springtime here