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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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Page modified 27 July 2019