Demeter and other poems/The Roses on the Terrace

by Alfred Tennyson

THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE.

 

Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago,
⁠When I was in my June, you in your May,
Two words, 'My Rose' set all your face aglow,
⁠And now that I am white, and you are gray,
That blush of fifty years ago, my dear,
⁠Blooms in the Past, but close to me to-day
As this red rose, which on our terrace here
⁠Glows in the blue of fifty miles away.