The Cottage Rose (Matthias Keller)
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- (Posted 2023-11-03) CPDL #76937:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-03). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 311 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Cottage Rose
Composer: Matthias Keller
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: ca. 1880 Copp, Clark & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
A lovely rose once graced a cottage scene,
And all who saw it loved it evermore;
The pride and joy of all the village green,
The cherished wealth that blessed he cottar’s store.
They prized it dearly from the hour ’twas born,
And in it centered all their world’s delight;
They prayed to Heaven at eve and early dawn,
To shield their lovely cottage rose from blight.
The rose for years had loved the simple cot,
Until the foolish thing had dreams of pride;
Rebelling then against its lowly lot,
It sighed to be some rich exotic’s bride.
The hope fulfilled, the rose was ta’en away
From home and friends that once were held so dear,
To bloom its hour of pride and then decay,
Dying neglected ere the coming year.