The Rose Over the Door.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2053, 8 April 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Rose Over the Door.

A cottage, all fitted and furnished, Stands daintly over the way. And h< re, a yjai-g pair it h.-a??Kfcping Citae prompt!/ (!»•’ l;r«: day id May. Trie . *>. to tv ho-cc-like and cosy, r.-e . j 1 Vl,, brig ; on the fivw, Ye. on. is»y -ve sa ? them planting A Itjee to ebom over the door. Ah. how they •.v,vV-u ever its growing, And trai -d it w.th i.H.-rt?: art- 1 . And »itt. as it? bright hj id- unf ' I d To lore of home •r.’.v in 'heir n-.-vrts. T ',-hvr.i o.c-i 3 1 nc in the e'-emog, A 1 -.v.-ry a-. 1 worn Don; :b store, T ' 1 the .vit- 's weie-m? the 'w.:*ct For li i.-Ci that bloomed o’er the d ’or. Dot •• bve," ihry say, “dies out the window W,tcn poverty enter? before ; ' Bat a/.iust all trial- sr-1 troubles T;.- - two \ oung h- art 3 g-.r.iered full store For, -h n Ml the lr -h of the twilight, Tc t y whispered anew love's sweet lore, \Vov<’ closer toe bond 3 of aff-riion, ’Neath rosea that bloomed o'er the door. And when ths “ dark days” cl red round irem, And poverty's waves over bore, To k-ep lbs dear hone how they struggled, v.'h- re bloomed over tbe door. And now, all their ‘ trial-time" ended, Tney dwell in the sunlight once more, And love brightly gleams on the hearth-stone Where Boses bloom over the door. Ve new mated pairs, who are building Your home nests, now beed I implore, This lesson—that love lingers longest Where Koses bloom over tbe door. So, ye, who count home more tbac shelter, Plant, ere the bright Spring-time is o’er— Jo make home the brighter and dearer— A Bose to bloom over tbe door.