I Wonder If Ever The Rose

A popular song from 1906.
Words by Fred G. Bowles.
Music by David Dick Slater.

The sheet music:

I-Wonder-If-Ever-The-Rose – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

I_Wonder_If_Ever_The_Rose – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. I wonder if ever the rose
    Remembers the days gone by?
    I wonder if melody blows
    From leaves that are perished and dry?
    Ah! God makes His roses so sweet
    Their fragrance is shed
    When the Summer is dead
  2. Though Life be the birthday of tears
    Roses are shed on its way
    May all that endures and endears
    Be gather’d and garner’d as they
    For God makes His roses so sweet
    Their fragrance is shed
    When the giver is dead