Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COLOUR OF ROSE; TO D.D., by AUSTIN PHILIPS


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COLOUR OF ROSE; TO D.D., by                    
First Line: Colour of rose is all your world to-day
Last Line: Colour of rose.
Subject(s): Friendship


COLOUR of Rose is all your world to-day,
The Sun of Youth illumes and lights your way,
Rosy and golden, shine before your eyes
Untrodden fields; and in the friendly skies
Sadness is not, nor any hint of grey.

And yet your dreams, as mine, in disarray
Must pass and melt and vanish. You shall say,
'I was a fool that held the grey world's guise
Colour of Rose.'

Then, only then, shall she whom dreams betray,
Who saw her castles crumble and decay,
Little expecting, where the ruin lies,
Behold a spacious, sun-kissed palace rise,
And find the Summer more, far more than May,
Colour of Rose.





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