FLOWER CAROL
"Consider the lilies of the field...even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these." Matthew 6:28-29
Words: Unknown, 13th Century; first appeared in the Swedish Piae
Cantiones, 1582.
Music: "Tempus Adest Floridum" ("Spring has unwrapped her flowers").
Spring has now unwrapped the flowers, day is fast reviving,
Life in all her growing powers towards the light is striving:
Gone the iron touch of cold, winter time and frost time,
Seedlings, working through the mould, now make up for lost time.
Through each wonder of fair days God Himself expresses;
Beauty follows all His ways, as the world He blesses:
So, as He renews the earth, Artist without rival,
In His grace of glad new birth we must seek revival.
Praise the Maker, all ye saints; He with glory girt you,
He Who skies and meadows paints fashioned all your virtue;
Praise Him, seers, heroes, kings, heralds of perfection;
Brothers, praise Him, for He brings all to resurrection!