Tell me, O Rose, what thing it is

That now appears, now vanishes?

Surely it took its fire-green hue

From daybreaks that it glittered through;

Quick, for this sparkle of the dawn

Glints through the garden and is gone.

What was the message, Rose, what word;

Delight foretold, or hope deferred?

The Round-Up

Down, down the wild canyons we go in a flurry;