The Rosary Stuart Burrows 1971

The Rosary
"The Rosary" is a song by Ethelbert Nevin setting text by Robert Cameron Rogers. The song was a popular song of turn of the century opera singers such as Rosa Ponselle and Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

Date: 1898

Lyrics:

The hours I spent with Thee, Dear Heart!
Or, as a string of pearls to Thee
I count them over, every 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, Sweet Heart
To kiss the cross . .
I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross, Sweet Heart
To kiss the cross . . . ( to kiss the cross