A Farewell Rose - Edenian

If I’m gone when you awaken

Please don’t think I was unkind

As I left, I thought about you

And still hold you in my mind

I don’t know where I am heading

But I know where I have been

It was heaven to have known you

Though some might have called it sin

…Call it sin!

In the garden of grief

Silent flower grows

In the hour of despair

Come and touch a farewell rose

When you lay me on the table

'Fore you put me in the ground

Whisper close and say you loved me

So that I may keep the sound

As you wander in the graveyard

Past the roses growing on the wall

Pick a bloom and take it with you

For another at the ball

…At the ball!

In the garden of grief

Silent flower grows

In the hour of despair

Come and touch a farewell rose