The Rosary

The Christmas Rosary - Mario Lanza/Ethelbert Nevin

Composed by：Ethelbert Nevin/Mario Lanza

The hours I spent with thee dear heart

Or as a string of pearls to me

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