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The Rose of Sharon

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There's a Rose that is blooming for you, friend

Author: H. R. Palmer
Tune: [There's a Rose that is blooming for you, friend]
Published in 32 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There’s a Rose that is blooming for you, friend,
There’s a Rose that is blooming for me;
Its perfume is pervading the world, friend,
Its perfume is for you and for me.

Refrain:
There’s a Rose, a lovely Rose,
And its beauty all the world shall see;
There’s a Rose, a lovely Rose,
Its perfume is for you and for me.

2 Long ago in the valley so fair, friend,
Far away by the beautiful sea,
This pure Rose in its beauty first bloomed, friend,
And it blooms still for you and for me. [Refrain]

3 All in vain did they crush this fair flow’r, friend,
All in vain did they shatter the tree,
For its roots, deeply bedded, sprang forth, friend,
And it blooms still for you and for me. [Refrain]

Source: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #114

Author: H. R. Palmer

Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In A… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: There's a Rose that is blooming for you, friend
Title: The Rose of Sharon
Author: H. R. Palmer
Language: English
Refrain First Line: There's a Rose, a lovely Rose
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[There's a Rose that is blooming for you, friend]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[There's a Rose that is blooming for you, friend]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals1890190019101920193019401950196019701980199020002010050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Praises We Sing (2nd ed.) #49

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #12415

Include 30 pre-1979 instances
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