# Oh, Roses for the flush of youth

- Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (died 1912)
- Words: Christina Georgina Rossetti (died 1894)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6189637

## The words

Oh roses,  
Oh roses for the flush of youth,  
And laurel for the perfect prime;  
But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before  
my time.  
Oh violets,  
Oh violets for the grave of youth,  
And bay for those dead in their prime;  
Give me the wither'd leaves I chose Before in  
the old time.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).