Historic Sheet Music Collection

Title

The Rosary

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1903

Comments

The Rosary

(Le Chapelet: Der Rosenkranz)

For Alto or Bass B

Words by Robert Cameron Rogers

French version by Isadore Martinez.

German version by Dr. Th. Baker.

English, French, and German text set to music by Ethelbert Nevin.

Boston: The Boston Music Co.: G. Schirmer Jr. (1903)

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Lyrics

[English]
The house I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as strong 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.

[French]
Nos heures intimas, O ma chre,
Me semblent comme un fil perle;
Je fais en le repassant, ma priere,
C’est de ma vie le chapelet!

Pour calmer ma douleur amere,
Je prie, en les contant, pour toi;
Mais a la din de mon rosaire
Je trouve une croix!

O souvenirs plains de regrets!
O ben heur vain! O triste joie!
Je baise perle a perle mon chapelet,
Afin depprendre baiser la croix.

[German]
die Stunden, dir allein geweiht,
mir ist wie Perlen ihr Glanz,
Ichzahle sie gar oft in Einsamkeit: mein
Rosenkranz, mein rosenkrnz

Und jede Perle ein gebet
fur’s herz, das sich nur sehnen kann;
ich sag’ sie bis an’s ende her:
da hangt ein Kreuz daran!

Erinn’rung, freudund leidenvoll!
oder Gewinn des Herzens du!
Die Perlen kuss ichob ich kussen soll
das Kreuz dazu?
Liebchen! Das Kreuz dazu?

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