Better Friends Lyrics

Ela Orleans Better Friends

When I'm all alone
Envy me most
Then my thoughts flutter round me
In a glimmering host

Some dressed in silver
Some dressed in white
Each like a taper
Blossoming light

Most of them married
Some of them grave
Each of them lithe
As willows that wave

Some dressed in silver
Some dressed in white
Each like a taper
Blossoming light

Some bearing violets
Some bearing bay
One with a burning rose
Hidden away

When I'm all alone
Envy me then
For I have better friends
Than women and men