set as a six-part canon (for equal or mixed voices)
by David Johnson

SATB performance time approx 2m 00s

Music

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Words

[translations of Latin phrases in square brackets]

There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu.
Alleluia.

For in this rose containèd was
Heaven and earth in little space:
Res miranda. [wonderful thing]

Now by that rose we may well see
That he is God in persons three,
Pares forma. [made equal in one form]

The angels sung'n the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Gaudeamus. [let us rejoice]

Leavè we all this wordly mirth,
And follow we this joyful birth:
Transeamus. [let us go]

late Medieval English text, modernised

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Companion pieces