W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan 
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan 

List and learn, ye dainty roses,
Roses white and roses red,
Why we bind you into posies
Ere your morning bloom has fled.
By a law of maiden’s making,
Accents of a heart that’s aching,
Even though that heart be breaking,
Should by maiden be unsaid:
Though they love with love exceeding,
They must seem to be unheeding-
Go ye then and do their pleading,
Roses white and roses red!