MARY-ENG-CELTIC-02A A Rose Left in the Book

[Intro] a rose left in the book kept the summer alive though all the golden afternoons had gone [Verse 1] Between two pages where your handwriting sleeps a little red weather of memory keeps its fragile color, its breath of rain its quiet refusal to fade into pain [Pre-Chorus] I turned the leaf, but I did not turn away some loves are pressed in the heart to stay [Chorus] Rose in the book, rose in the evening what did you know that I could not say long after youth has vanished from singing you keep one summer from passing away [Instrumental Interlude] [Verse 2] The library window was silver with dust the clock had forgotten both hunger and rust I read your name in a margin of blue and all the old light came walking through [Bridge] Do not bloom too loudly now let beauty keep its vow [Final Chorus] Rose in the book, rose in the evening what did you know that I could not say long after youth has vanished from singing you keep one summer from passing away [Outro] a rose left in the book kept the summer alive