No. 12: In Quiet Convent Closes
Gerard
MIDI File 2' 17"
GERARD: | In quiet convent closes | ||
The rosebud maidens grow; | |||
The fairest of the roses | |||
Is mine from long ago. | |||
Mine is the right and power | |||
To win and wear her soon; | |||
My pure and perfect flower, | |||
The garden rose of June. | |||
Oh, my rose, shy rose, Purest pink and white; |
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What joy to think the white and pink | |||
Is all for my delight, Is all for my delight! |
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Above the hedge of briar | |||
That walls the woodland ways, | |||
High as my head and higher | |||
A lonely blossom sways: | |||
A rose that none has planted, | |||
A vagrant forest maid; | |||
To give one hour enchanted, | |||
And then to fail and fade. | |||
Oh, child rose, wild rose, Roses fade and fall; |
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But till they're thinned by Autumn wind, | |||
I love, I love them all I love, I love them all! |
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