Anthem 52

Anthem 47 - There is a flow'r


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Welcome to Anthem 47 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to [email protected].

I went back to Advent this week - or at least I looked for some more Advent lyrics. It occurred to me that I could find some lyrics in service booklets for Advent Carol Services so I tried to search for those. The second one I found was from The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester's 2020 Advent Carol Service. They performed a carol with words by John Audelay (d. c. 1426). These seemed ideal for what I was trying to write.

Here are the words I chose:

Words for Anthem 47:

There is a flow’r sprung of a tree, the root thereof is called Jesse, a flow’r of price there is none such in paradise.

This flow’r is fair and fresh of hue, it fadeth ne’er, but e’er is new; the blessèd branch this flow’r on grew was Mary mild that bare Jesu; a flow’r of grace; against all sorrow it is solace.

When Gabriel this maid did meet, with ‘Ave Maria’ he did her greet; between them two this flow’r was set and safe was kept, no man should wit, till on a day in Bethlehem it could spread and spray.

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