What is a youth?
          
Impetuous fire.
          
What is a maid?
        
Ice and desire.
               
The world wags on

            
rose will bloom,
             
it then will fade
       
So dies the youth.
             
So dies the fairest maid.

               [bad word] a time when one sweet smile
           
Has its season for awhile
                       
Then Love’s in love with me

                       
Some may think only to mar-ry.
                   
Others will tease and tar-ry.
                      
Mine is the very best par-ry,
             
Cupid [bad word] us all.

                   
Caper the caper; sing me the song
                          
Death [bad word] soon to hush us along
                       
Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall,
                          
Love is a task and it never will pall.
                       
Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall,
            
Cupid [bad word] us all.

            
rose will bloom,
             
it then will fade
       
So dies the youth.
             
So dies the fairest maid.