Roses red and roses white <br />Plucked I for my love's delight. <br />She would none of all my posies-- <br />Bade me gather her blue roses. <br /> <br />Half the world I wandered through, <br />Seeking where such flowers grew. <br />Half the world unto my quest <br />Answered me with laugh and jest. <br /> <br />Home I came at wintertide, <br />But my silly love had died <br />Seeking with her latest breath <br />Roses from the arms of Death. <br /> <br />It may be beyond the grave <br />She shall find what she would have. <br />Mine was but an idle quest-- <br /> <br />Roses white and red are best!<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blue-roses/
