Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Question and Answer lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Question and Answer lyrics]
Love you seek for, presupposes
Summer heat and sunny glow
Tell me, do you find moss-roses
Budding, blooming in the snow?
Snow might kill the rose-tree’s root
Shake it quickly from your foot
Lest it harm you as you go
From the ivy where it dapples
A grey ruin, stone by stone
Do you look for grapes or apples
Or for sad green leaves alone?
Pluck the leaves off, two or three
Keep them for morality
When you shall be safe and gone
Summer heat and sunny glow
Tell me, do you find moss-roses
Budding, blooming in the snow?
Snow might kill the rose-tree’s root
Shake it quickly from your foot
Lest it harm you as you go
From the ivy where it dapples
A grey ruin, stone by stone
Do you look for grapes or apples
Or for sad green leaves alone?
Pluck the leaves off, two or three
Keep them for morality
When you shall be safe and gone