Medieval Mary ​Garden Name

Virtue

Latin Botanical name

O Rose, with thorns surrounded,
O Rose, of a blood-red hue,
You tell of a Man-God’s Passion,
Of a Virgin’s heart pierced through

How deep that Mother’s sorrow
No human tongue can tell!
But ’twas our sins that pierced her,
In the Son she loved so well.

Let us grieve for sins committed,
which caused her so much pain,
That when our lives are closing,
She may grace for us obtain.