Ah! May The Red Rose Live Always - Thomas Hampson

作曲：Stephen Foster

Ah may the red rose live always

To smile upon earth and sky

Why should the beautiful ever weep

Why should the beautiful die

Lending a charm to every ray

That falls on her cheeks of light

Giving the zephyr kiss for kiss

And nursing the dew-drop bright

Ah may the red rose live always

To smile upon earth and sky

Why should the beautiful ever weep

Why should the beautiful die

Long may the daisies dance the field

Frolicking far and near

Why should the innocent hide their heads

Why should the innocent fear

Spreading their petals in mute delight

When morn in its radiance breaks

Keeping a floral festival

Till the night-loving primrose wakes

Long may the daisies dance the field

Frolicking far and near

Why should the innocent hide their heads

Why should the innocent fear

Lulled be the dirge in the cypress bough

That tells of departed flowers

Ah that the butterfly's gilded wing

Fluttered in evergreen bowers

Sad is my heart for the blighted plants

Its pleasures are aye as brief

They bloom at the young year's joyful call

And fade with the autumn leaf

Ah may the red rose live always

To smile upon earth and sky

Why should the beautiful ever weep

Why should the beautiful die