Lyr Req: Songs of a Prospector / Roses I Send...

Subject: lyrics for songs of the prospector
From:
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 10:42 PM

I am looking for the lyrics from one of the songs from the set Songs of the Prospector. I know that it starts out Oh Roses whose beauty is subtle and rare, for you my beloved .......... Roses I send to you all I intend to you let ere they fade may they carry secure thanks.

Subject: RE: lyrics for songs of the prospector
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 12:46 AM

I didn't find any lyrics, but you can apparently order the chorale music from Boose and Hawkes (click).

Subject: RE: lyrics for songs of the prospector
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 May 05 - 11:32 PM

Here's the description from Stephen Chatman's (the composer's) website:

Songs of a Prospector (1989) 8 min.
(Text: George Winkler)
SAB or SATB and piano.
1. Pals
2. Memories
3. The Scout
4. Roses I Send to You
5. The Calliope
Commissioned by Nova Scotia Music Educators' Association.
Premiere: May 4, 1989, Halifax, National Music Educators' Association, Halifax Select High School Choir.
Published (each separately): New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1990.

Subject: Lyr Add: ROSES I SEND TO YOU (G Winkler, S Chatman
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 02:07 AM

Oh roses, whose beauty is subtle and rare,
For you my beloved so gentle and fair,
Roses I send to you
All I intend to you
Love and devotion I solemnly swear.

Oh beautiful messengers, fragrant and fair,
And greeting the morning all guiltless of care,
Roses I send to you
Such I commend to you
Roses to grace your dark tresses of hair.

So blushing conscious each bud how demure!
But sad that their beauties so briefly endure!
Roses I send to you
All I intend to you
Yet ere they fade may they carry secure.

    -George Winkler

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roses I Send to You (G Winkler, S Chatman
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 10:16 PM

My 8th grade choir class is singing this!