Guest Q: You have it backwards in your post (#2, above. The melody to "Rose, Rose," is traditional; the "Peace Round" words are what I wrote, setting them to an adaptation (very nearly the same)of the old tune. I used the low note which ends the old tune to sing the first word of my poem, "O"(followed by "what a goodly thing..." etc.)

As I wrote before, in another "Rose, Rose" thread, we sang the words to the old round thusly:

Rose, rose, rose, rose,
Shall I ever see thee red?
Aye, marry, that thou wilt
If thou but stay.

A simple question posed to a rosebud slow to open- nothing to do with pale dying maidens as far as I know.