She was a silent white rose

Who lived in a tall iron tower

Barefoot she wandered in her room

Dreaming of life and a lover

And in a night she threw a net

Into the ocean wide and deep

And some of the things she caught in there

Made her sad and made her weep

A fiery warmth embraced her heart

When sunrays caught her hair

And then she looked upon the world

Her longing got hard to bear

She was locked in an iron tower

With windows but no doors to be found

Often she listened hard at night

For a voice in the ocean's sound

And voices was mingling with her own

Waves were singing flee the tower

By the stairway that takes you down

Follow the ocean's song my flower

Silent the rose went down

She was shivering in the dark and the cold

Through in an opening in the wall

The ocean sang as fortold

Floating upon the warm blue sea

By the waves to a shore she was led

Among the trees red roses grow

And the white rose turned to red