Niels Ferlin: 'Får jag lämna några blommor?'

May I leave some flowers when parting

May I leave some flowers when parting – a few roses for your care,

and you must ward off all sadness, my dear one.

For a royal estate is where they have bloomed once, and I swear

it would take a sword for one to get near one.

The first one, it is white

and the second, it is red,

but the third I would bestow my heart's nearest.

It will not bloom until

he who gives it is no more –

it is strange indeed that rose is, my dearest.

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The first one, it is white

and the second, it is red,

but the third I would bestow my heart's nearest.

It will not bloom until

he who gives it is no more –
but will bloom then quite a long time, my dearest.

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