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, @3'I was a fool that held the grey world's guise Colour of Rose.'@1 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |