O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples; before you kings will shut their mouths, to you the nations will make their prayer: Come and deliver us, and delay no longer. From the beginning You created more than things but hid in them a seed of Your life force, for Love cannot make only one, embedding life in life, from life. You are insistent that the making carries on, in me, in all. If there is any doubt, a tree stands ready to renew my withered spirit. Seed calls to seed. I am created
