sentences:  Theodore Baker's "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" was written in 1894 and appears in the Psalter Hymnal (Christian Reformed Church in North America) and The United Methodist Hymnal (American United Methodist Church).The British hymn translator Catherine Winkworth translated the first two verses of the hymn as "A Spotless Rose", and in 1919 the British composer Herbert Howells set this text as an SATB anthem.The composer stated that