Queen of fragrance (Marcellus Higgs)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-27). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 573 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Queen of fragrance
Composer: Marcellus Higgs
Lyricist: William Broome
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1876 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
THE ROSE-BUD
Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose,
The beauties of thy leaves disclose!
The winter’s past, the tempests fly,
Soft gales breathe gently through the sky;
The lark sweet warbling on the wing
Salutes the gay return of Spring;
The silver dews, the vernal showers,
Call forth a bloomy waste of flowers;
The joyous fields, the shady woods,
Are cloth’d with green, or swell with buds;
Then haste thy beauties to disclose,
Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose!