# The First Rose

- Music: Alexander Mackenzie (died 1935)
- Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (died 1931)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6505010

## The words

The rose that in the Springtide ventures forth  
To woo the Zephyr with her crimson smiles And  
odorous wiles  
Too often chances on the cruel north;  
For every kiss of his cold lips With poisonous  
blight her beauty nips, Till, one by one,  
with downcast head, She weeps away her petals  
red.  
And with the last bereft of life and light  
Sighs forth her passionate soul on the dark  
lap of night.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).