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' A rose has sprung up ') is a Christmas carol and Marian hymn of German origin. It is most commonly translated into English as "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming" and is also called "A Spotless Rose" and "Behold a Rose of Judah". The rose in the German text is a symbolic reference to the Virgin Mary.
But, moreover, she is the Mystical or Hidden Rose, for mystical means hidden. [3] The devotional medal of Maria Rosa Mystica – Mater Ecclesiae. Roses have long been connected with Mary, the red rose symbolic of love, the white rose, of purity. In the fifth century, Coelius Sedulius referred to Mary as a "rose among thorns". [4]
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, [- the] [7] man, he dies. Like to the grass that’s newly sprung, Or like a tale that’s new begun, Or like [a] [5] bird that’s here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span,
The Blind Girl.Wiley & Putnam, 1844. [3]Monterey and Other Poems.R. Craighead, 1851. [4]A Wreath of Columbia’s Flowers.H. Dayton, 1858. [5]Bells at Evening and Other Verses; with Biographical Sketch by Robert Lowry.
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine, the columbine, the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils. Mariological symbols include the rose, lily, olive, cedar, cypress and palm ...
It became a symbol in religious writing and iconography in different images and settings, to invoke a variety of intellectual and emotional responses. [4] The mystic rose appears in Dante's Divine Comedy, where it represents God's love. By the twelfth century, the red rose had come to represent Christ's passion, and the blood of the martyrs. [5]
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The man lays claim over the rose tree, and though he tends to her every need, seems to get nothing but contempt and jealousy from her. Not only is the rose tree trapped underneath the possessiveness of the man, but another "trap" could be implied according to Antal with "The rose-tree, as a rose bush, hints at the possibility of childbearing."