I've learned a different translation to this song. The words are more simple. Less hymnlike, more folk song-ish. This is one of my favorite carols.

MARIA WANDERED THROUGH A WOOD

Maria Wandered Through a Wood
Kyrie Eleison
Through a barren wood of barren thorn
that for seven years no bloom had born
Jesus and Maria

What did she lightly carry there
Kyrie Eleison
A child beneath her heart she bear
Maria bear it lightly there
Jesus and Maria

And as the child was lightly born
Kyrie Eleison
Even as the child was lightly born
Bright roses shone among the thorn
Jesus and Maria