Of Jesse's Lineage Coming

when the fullness of time indeed had come,

the Father sent forth His Beloved Son;

the One the prophets had long foretold,

the One their eyes had longed to behold:

the promised fruit of Abraham's seed,

the fabled branch of David's tree,

the signet, of Zerubbabel,

the incarnate Word, Immanuel

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a poem from

the genealogy of Christ

in Matthew 1:1-17

titled from

"Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming"