O Mystical Rose

  

Stefan Lochner
Madonna of the Rose Garden

Mystical Rose

There is no rose of such virtue 

As is the rose that bear Jesu: 

Alleluia.

For in this rose contained was 

Heaven and earth in little space: 

Res Miranda.

By that rose we may well see 

There be one God in Persons Three: 

Pares forma.

The angels sang, the shepherds too: 

Gloria in Excelsis Deo: 

Gaudeamus.

Leave we all this worldly mirth 

And follow we this joyful birth: 

Transeamus.

by an unknown Medieval Author