Roses and thorns
Language: English
The young child Jesus had a garden,
Full of roses, rare and red:
And thrice a day he watered them,
To make a garland for his head.
When they were full-blown in the garden,
He called the Jewish children there,
And each did pluck himself a rose,
Until they stripped the garden bare.
"And now how will you make your garland?
For not a rose your path adorns."
"But you forget," he answered them,
"That you have left me still the thorns."
They took the thorns, and made a garland,
And placed it on his shining head;
And where the roses should have shone
Were little drops of blood instead!
Translation(s): GER RUS
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Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) FRE RUS ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Adolf Strodtmann (1829 - 1879) RUS ; composed by Margarete Voigt-Schweikert.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) , "Легенда", first published 1877 FRE ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Text added to the website: 2008-01-22 00:00:00.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:02
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