Cold December Flies Away Lyrics

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

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 belov'd of heaven

Now the bud has come to bloom

And 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