Can you name the composer?

Ah! may the red rose live alway,

To smile upon earth and sky!

Why should the beautiful ever weep?

Why should the beautiful die?

Lending a charm to ev'ry ray

That falls on her cheeks of light,

Giving the zephyr kiss for kiss,

And nursing the dew drop bright.



Long may the daisies dance the field,

Frolicking far and near!

Why should the innocent hide their heads?

Why should the innocent fear?

Spreading their petals in mute delight

When morn in its radiance breaks,

Keeping a floral festival

Till night loving primrose wakes.

Can you name the composer?
To Miss Mary M. Dallas

"Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!"

Song.

Written and Composed

for the Piano Forte

by Stephen Collins Foster, 1826-1864