A rose to a Rose (William Wallace Gilchrist)

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• (Posted 2023-10-19)  CPDL #76471:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-19).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: A rose to a Rose
Composer: William Wallace Gilchrist
Lyricist: Sidney Lanier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 H. W. Gray Co.
Description: Three Four-part Songs, The words by Sidney Lanier, No. 2

Original text and translations

English text

I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love’s devoir might pay
Upon my Lady’s natal day.

Then said my heart to me:
‘Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
What fits thy Love most lovingly.’

This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
I send a rose unto a Rose.