Strew on her Roses (Cyril Bradley Rootham)

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• (Posted 2023-12-06)  CPDL #77884:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Strew on her Roses
Composer: Cyril Bradley Rootham
Lyricist: Matthew Arnold
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 Boosey & Co.
Description: Op.5 No.1

Original text and translations

English text

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Strew on her roses,
And never a spray of yew!
In quiet she reposes;
Ah! would that I did too!

Her mirth the world required;
She bathed it in smiles of glee,
But her heart was tired,
And now they let her be.

Her life was turning, turning,
In mazes of heat and sound;
But for peace her soul was yearning,
And now peace laps her round.

Her cabined, ample spirit,
It fluttered and failed for breath.
To-night it doth inherit
The vasty hall of death.