The Rose on the Terrace

Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago,
When I was in my June, you in your May,
Two words, 'My rose' set all your face aglow,
And now that I am white and you are gray,
That blush of fifty years ago, my dear,
Blooms in the past, but close to me today
As this red rose, which on our terrace here
Glows in the blue of fifty miles away.

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson