Hi. I found this site looking for info for program notes for an upcoming concert by Meridian Women's Chorus in Athens, Ga. We're singing a version by Ron Jeffers. His translation is:

Maria walks amid the thorn, kyrie eleison
Which for seven years no leaf hath born
She walks amid the wood of thorn, Jesus and Maria.

What 'neath her heart doth Mary bear? Kyrie eleison.
A little child doth Mary bear
Beneath her heart he nestles there, Jesus and Maria.

And as the two are passing near, kyrie eleison
Lo! Roses on the the thorns appear!
Lo! Roses on the the thorns appear! Jesus and Maria.