The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "The rose family", appears in West-Running Brook, first published 1928 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (1908 - 2012), "The rose family", 1942, from Three Poems of Robert Frost, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Musto (b. 1954), "The rose family", from Two by Frost, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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