- Full Text
- 1.How fair is the rose what a beautiful flower The glory of April and May But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour And they wither and die in a day 2.(Yet) The Rose has one powerful virtue to last Above all the flowers of the field When its leaves are all dead and the colors lost (Still) How sweet a perfume will it yield
- Listed on Page Number
- 259
- Sampler Worked By
- Kitty Whitely
- Date of Sampler
- 1807
- Place Sampler Made
- Newark, DE
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 167
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Watts, Rev. Isaac, Moral Songs III, England, 1715
- Notes
- Also used by:
Marcy H. Jones, (1810) Charlestown, MA, p182;
E. Hamilton, (1819) (owned by Fairmount Park Commission, Philadelphia, PA), p167.
Published in Hymnals
Title of Hymn: “ The Rose”
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