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How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower! The Rose

Isaac Watts printed it in 1715 in Divine Songs for Children, Moral Songs, no. 3.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1715 Divine Songs for Children · no. 3

METRE

12.8.12.8 4 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

A subject no verse printed above it

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All 4 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

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a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower

How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower!

The glory of April and May:

But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour,

And they wither and die in a day.

No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.

The passage it draws on most

Its book prints no verse above this hymn. Of the verses its lines share most wording with, this is the one the whole hymn draws on, chosen by an AI model from those the word matching found. Not the author's own heading.

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. ISAIAH 40:6 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE OPEN IT BESIDE THE PAGE

Its place in the book

Moral Songs holds these hymns in this order: 8 hymns. This is number 3. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 3 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower!

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