1943
The Rose Family
Composed by 
Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter Text by 
Robert Frost
Robert Frost Three Poems of Robert Frost Song Collection
"The Rose Family" is the second song of Elliott Carter's Three Poems of Robert Frost.
Text
The Rose Family
by Robert Frost
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose –
But were always a rose.
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