Beauty and the Beast - Request for a Rose

Lyrics by Frank DiGiacomo and Julian R. Pace. Photography by Sherry Eckstein.

After the two Sisters finish with their requests for gifts from the city, their Father asks Beauty what he may bring for her. She replies “Only your dear self, Father, safely home from the perils of the high road.” He asks again, “Will you not let me bring you anything at all?”

LYRICS
Beauty:    
        Well—yes, there is one thing:
        a small thing really, and not worth your trouble.
        Do you remember the gardens which surrounded our great house?
        When the roses bloomed in summer, how sweet was the air in our garden,
        what vivid color to delight our eyes, when the roses were in bloom.
        I think I would be happy to smell a rose once more,
        to smell a rose once more,
        for none grow among the flowers in this lonely wood.
        Bring me a rose, Father.