Blake Song 4. The Sick Rose: Susan Craft Larson, mezzo-soprano; pianist, Yelena Birayeva; music by David Edgar Walther. Happy birthday, Haig. The poem is by William Blake:
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
