As The Roses Turned To Brown

I saw the last light ending Of the love I'd treasured long, The birds that rested in the trees No longer had a song, And there stood I without a friend Alone within this town, And watched the summer fading As the roses turned to brown. Their withered heads hung limply As they draped unto the floor, Those flowers there that gave me joy Gave nothing anymore, For through that mass of twisted thorns Where all my hopes did drown, I saw the pain unending As the roses turned to brown. When 'neath that arbour where we'd kissed I thought you were my Queen, Who'd be with me for evermore Yet luck was cruel and mean, Where once I'd felt just like a King I lost my golden crown, That melted to the sunset As the roses turned to brown.