En el Frio Invernal (Cold December Flies Away)
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Catalonian carol; harmonized by Skinner Chavez-Melo, 1987
Tune: Lo Desembre Congelat
Also known as "The Rose Carol"
Meter: Irr.

{English Lyrics}

[Verse 1]
Cold December flies away at the rose-red splendor.
April's crowning glory breaks while the whole world wonders
at the holy unseen pow'r of the tree which bears the flow'r.
On the blessed tree blooms the reddest flow'r,
on the tree blooms the rose here in love's own garden,
full and strong in glory.

[Verse 2]
In the hopeless time of sin shadows deep had fallen.
All the world lay under death, eyes were closed in sleeping.
But, when all seemed lost in night, came the sun whose golden light
brings unending joy, brings the endless joy
of our hope, highest hope, of our hope's bright dawning,
Son beloved of heaven.

[Verse 3]
Now the bud has come to bloom, all the world awakens.
In the lily's purest flow'r dwells a wondrous fragrance.
And it spreads to all the earth from the moment of its birth;
and its beauty lives. In the flow'r it lives,
in the flow'r, and it spreads in its heav'nly brightness,
sweet perfume delightful.