When the rose is faded,
    Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed,
    And the sweet smell gone.

That vanishing loveliness,
    That burdening breath
No bond of life hath then
    Nor grief of death.

'Tis the immortal thought
    Whose passion still
Makes of the changing
    The unchangeable.

Oh, thus thy beauty,
    Loveliest on earth to me,
Dark with no sorrow, shines
    And burns, with Thee.