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
a poem from
the genealogy of Christ
in Matthew 1:1-17
titled from
"Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming"