THE CROWN OF ROSES
Tchaikovsky, compositor romántico ruso, fue el creador de una música cosmopolita, aunque no exenta de raíces rusas. Entre sus obras destacan los ballets (El lago de los cisnes), su Obertura Romeo y Julieta y el Concierto para violín.
When Jesus Christ was yet a child, He had a garden small and wild, wherein he cherished roses fair, and wove them into garlands there. Now once, as summer time drew night, there came a troop of children by, and seeing roses on the tree, with shouts they plucked them merrily. Do you bind roses in your hair? Thet cried, in scorn, to Jesus there. The boy said humbly; "take I pray, all but the naked thorns away". Then of the thorns they made a crown, and with rough fingers pressed it down, till on his forehead faior and young red drops of blood like roses sprung.