and i ve sat in the sunshine in summers of sadness and lived through the winter when lonely was here and i ve gone through the motions of feeling for fear that i never would find you my dear and i m thankful to whoever made it all possible for me to be with you while i lived and spare you the grief if i passed on before you and i don t think i d live if you died before me and i hope that the smell of these roses will follow you on in the time when the roses are gone i love you dawn i love you dawn