Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Magical rendering Sonny! It hovers on an edge between reality and hyper real. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Dec 24, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Sonny Carter wrote: > Tonight, my wife Kathy will sing the old carol at Midnight Mass; > I wish you could be here to listen to her pretty voice. You'll just have > to > settle for this, and dream. > > http://sonc.com/look/?p=563 > > Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming from tender stem hath sprung! > Of Jesse's lineage coming, as men 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; > 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. > > The shepherds heard the story proclaimed by angels bright, > How Christ, the Lord of glory was born on earth this night. > To Bethlehem they sped and in the manger they found Him, > As angel heralds said. > > This Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air, > Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness everywhere; > True man, yet very God, from sin and death He saves us, > And lightens every load.