A popular song from 1906.
words by Andreas Bard
music by Frank La Forge
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Would, love, I were the rosebud
Which on thy bosom lies
Short is its day, but blissful
It buds, and blooms, and dies
Thus could I live, forgetting
That we for aye must part
And live and love and perish
So closely to thy heart
Sung here by Fred Feild: