A rose to a Rose (William Wallace Gilchrist)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-19). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
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
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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.