My Favorite Advent Hymn

As much as I love Christmas music, I think Advent music is seriously under appreciated. I especially love the hymn Lo How a Rose E're Blooming:

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming,
as those of old have sung.
It came, a floweret 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.


I really love this hymn because it really ties the Old Testament with the New.