Catholic Activity: Marian Hymn: A Single Branch Three Roses Bore
Marian hymn from Silesia, 1840. This can be sung on all Marian feast days.
DIRECTIONS
1. A single branch three roses bore, O Maria.
They bloom upon the heav'nly shore, O Maria.
Refrain: O Maria, see we raise
A thousand times our hymns of praise,
Our hymns of praise.
2. What in her womb does Mary bear? O Maria.
As roses bloom an infant fair. O Maria. — Refrain.
3. What on her brow does Mary bear? O Maria.
A crown that God bestowed on her. O Maria. — Refrain.
Activity Source: Around the Year with the Trapp Family by Maria Augusta Trapp, Pantheon Books Inc., New York, New York, 1955
