Ballad.

It was not in the Winter

Our loving lot was cast;

It was the Time of Roses —

We plucked them as we passed!

That churlish season never frown’d

On early lovers yet:—

Oh, no — the world was newly crown’d

With flowers when first we met!

’Twas twilight¹, and I bade you go,

But still you held me fast;

It was the Time of Roses —

We pluck’d them as we pass’d. —

What else could peer thy glowing cheek,

That tears began to stud?

And when I ask’d the like of Love,

You snatched a damask bud;

And oped it to the dainty core,

Still glowing to the last. —

It was the Time of Roses —

We plucked them as we pass’d!

1 twilight   

n.暮光，黄昏；暮年，晚期，衰落时期

参考例句：

• Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
• Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。