TO ROSA
You are young, and I am older;
You are hopeful, I am not --
Enjoy life, ere it grow colder --
Pluck the roses ere they rot.
Teach your beau to heed the lay --
That sunshine soon is lost in shade --
That now's as good as any day --
To take thee, Rosa, ere she fade.
You are young, and I am older;
You are hopeful, I am not --
Enjoy life, ere it grow colder --
Pluck the roses ere they rot.
Teach your beau to heed the lay --
That sunshine soon is lost in shade --
That now's as good as any day --
To take thee, Rosa, ere she fade.