Oh roses, whose beauty is subtle and rare,
For you my beloved so gentle and fair,
Roses I send to you
All I intend to you
Love and devotion I solemnly swear.

Oh beautiful messengers, fragrant and fair,
And greeting the morning all guiltless of care,
Roses I send to you
Such I commend to you
Roses to grace your dark tresses of hair.

So blushing conscious each bud how demure!
But sad that their beauties so briefly endure!
Roses I send to you
All I intend to you
Yet ere they fade may they carry secure.

    -George Winkler