Mealor: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Four Madrigals On Rose Texts): A Spotless Rose - Paul Mealor, Tenebrae

A spotless Rose is blowing,

Sprung from a tender root,

Of ancient seers' foreshowing,

Of Jesse promised fruit;

Its fairest bud unfolds to light

And in the dark midnight,

Amid the winter cold,

A spotless Rose unfolds.

The Rose which I am singing,

Whereof Isaiah said,

Is from its sweet root springing,

In Mary, purest Maid;

For, through our God’s great love and might,

And in the dark midnight,

Amid the winter cold,

The blesse’d Babe she bare.