{"id":2730,"date":"1971-12-31T10:37:00","date_gmt":"1971-12-31T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:00:39","slug":"o-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"O Rose!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>O Rose! Thou art sick! (*)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/new\/ORosethouartsick.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub>With singing voice<\/sub><br><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 1971<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/new\/ORosethouartsick.ogg\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 1971<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The Sick Rose<\/strong><br>WIlliam Blake 28 November 1757 \u2013 12 August 1827<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Rose, Thou art sick<br>The invisible worm<br>That flies in the night<br>that flies in, in the howling storm,<br>has found out thy bed of crimson joy:<br>And his dark secret love doth thy life destroy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Epitaph<\/strong><br>Samuel T Coleridge 1772\u20131834<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop, Christian passer by!<br>Stop, child of God,<br>And read with gentle breast:<br>Beneath this sod a poet lies,<br>or that which which once seemed he<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, lift one thought in prayer for S T C<br>That he who many a year with toil of breath<br>found death in life, may here find life in death!<br>Mercy for praise &#8211; to be forgiven for fame<br>He asked, and hoped, through Christ<br>Do thou the same!<br>Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/O_Rose_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki<\/a> and NoteWorthy Scriptorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1971)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>\u00a0software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Rose! Thou art sick! (*) The Sick RoseWIlliam Blake 28 November 1757 \u2013 12 August 1827 O Rose, Thou art sickThe invisible wormThat flies in the nightthat flies in, in the howling storm,has found out thy bed of crimson joy:And his dark secret love doth thy life destroy EpitaphSamuel T Coleridge 1772\u20131834 Stop, Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}