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Show "The Rosary" In Buffalo, N. Y., Robert Cameron Cam-eron Rogers was born in 1862, a quarter century before he wrote the words of "The Rosary" as part of what he planned as an American epic. He was not proud of the verse by itself, and did not sign it when it was first published in an obscure magazine! Ethelbert Nevin set it to music and became rich from the royalties from the 3,000.000 copies sold. Florence Barclay penned a novel, "The Rosary," with the song as its inspiration, and it became one of the biggest best sellers in history, piling up hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars for her. But Rogers himself profited only a few hundred dollars from his poem. |