The Rosary

"The Rosary" is a song by Ethelbert Nevin setting text by Robert Cameron Rogers. The song was a popular song of turn of the century opera singers such as Rosa Ponselle and Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

Date: 1898Composer: Ethelbert NevinText: Robert Cameron Rogers

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The Rosary
by Robert Cameron Rogers

The hours I spent with thee, dear heart
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over ev’ry one apart,
My rosary, my rosary!

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer
To still a heart in absence wrung:
I tell each bead unto the end,
And there a cross is hung!

O memories that bless and burn!
O barren gain and bitter loss!
I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross, sweetheart, to kiss the cross.

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The Rosary

Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin

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Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin

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