She Told Her Beads is a setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem of the same name.

She told her beads* with down–cast eyes,
Within the ancient chapel dim;
And ever as her fingers slim
Slipt o’er th’ insensate ivories,
My rapt soul followed, spaniel–wise.
Ah, many were the beads she wore;
But as she told them o’er and o’er,
They did not number all my sighs.
My heart was filled with unvoiced cries
And prayers and pleadings unexpressed;
But while I burned with Love’s unrest,
She told her beads with down–cast eyes.

*To tell your beads means to recite your prayers to a rosary