from The Bijou Literary Annual, 1828
author: By Sir Thomas E. Croft, Bart.
source date: 1828
edition published: 20170606
availability: Freely available via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The Bijou;
or Annual of Literature and the Arts

compiled by William Fraser
William Pickering London
1828
p. 31

The Rose

By Sir Thomas E. Croft, Bart.

La rose que ta main chérie
Hier a sauvé de la mort,
Est aujourd'hui pâle et flétrie; —
Tel est des fleurs le triste sort.
Reconnaissante de ta peine,
En mourant cette aimable fleur,
Légue a tes joues sa rougeur,
Son doux parfum à ton haleine.

The rose, alas! Thy guardian hand
Sav'd yesterday from dying,
Pale, wan, and wither'd from its stem,
Is now in ruins lying:
But the fond flower, to shew she still
Was grateful, e'en in death,
Her blushes to thy cheek bequeathed,
Her perfume to thy breath.