Strew on her Roses (Cyril Bradley Rootham)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-06). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 488 kB Copyright: Personal
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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
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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.