Continuing stuff

There’s not much to blog about.  I’m preparing for a vacation…

One of my favorite pop tunes:  The Rosary

The hours I spent with Thee, Dear Heart!
Or, as a string of pearls to Thee,
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary, my rosary . . .

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer,
To still a heart in absence wrung,
I tell each bead unto the end,
And there a cross is hung . . .

O’ memories that bless and burn,
O’ barren gain and bitter loss,
I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn,
To kiss the cross, Sweet Heart,
To kiss the cross . . .

I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn,
To kiss the cross, Sweet Heart,
To kiss the cross . . . ( to kiss the cross )

Words and Music by
Robert Cameron Rogers and Ethelbert Nevin

It seems that this song compares time spent with a person to praying a Rosary, and then the loss of the friend is compared to kissing the cross. Well, at least the Rosary shows up in the song – it is something familiar. A reminder of the Rosary is a reminder to pray the Rosary.