“When you press me to your heart, I’m in a world apart, A
world where roses bloom...” Louis Armstrong ‘La Vie en Rose’

“A wondrous pleasant dream…How that is called, which now I
write, I answer “The Romance”…for lovers written “of the Rose”, Which doth love’s gentle art enclose.” 'Romance of the Rose' by Guillaume de Lorris ca. 1230. Translated by F.S. Ellis