Beauty's a Flower

Youth's for an hour,  
Beauty's a flower,  
But love is the jewel that wins the world.  
 
Youth's for an hour, an' the taste o' life is sweet,  
Ailes was a girl that stepped on two bare feet;        
In all my days I never seen the one as fair as she,  
I'd have lost my life for Ailes, an' she never cared for me.  
 
Beauty's a flower, an' the days o' life are long,  
There's little knowin' who may live to sing another song;  
For Ailes was the fairest, but another is my wife,  
An' Mary—God be good to her!—is all I love in life.  
 
Youth's for an hour,  
Beauty's a flower,  
But love is the jewel that wins the world.