England’s Rose

Daughter of a Yorkist King

Elizabeth of York was her name

The delight of her fathers court

Her world surrounded by war and peace

Until the day she became the Queen

White and Red Bound

Married Henry The 7th she did

The roses united forevermore

Survived the worst and died the best

Through marriage her line would live on

Arthur, the eldest died at 15

Then Margaret came,

Through her, her descendants claimed England’s throne

Henry The 8th, the tyrant

He married six wives

With two beheaded

Elizabeth, Mary and Edmund came in turn

But by her last child, she delivered without breath

So Elizabeth died at 37

A remarkable woman indeed

Piety and penitence her moto