For all this life and all the world
I've followed lost dreams, flags unfurled
Over oceans deep, mountains grand
Here at home and in foreign lands.

I've lost my way and wandered far
Searched with compass, map, and stars.
Yet where my path leads no one knows
All done for the love of a Rose.

Those narrow pathways I have found
They all led nowhere, round and round.
And all those mountains in the sky
Only God's angels heard me cry.

Then from somewhere close by my heart
From Life's own blood a bloom did start.
And why it happened, just God knows,
He gave me back my Dear Sweet Rose.

Adriaan