Rozella D. Ashbaucher

Orange City, Florida

Rozella had been writing poetry since high school days. She graduated from Miami High School, Southern Brothers Business College and The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. She has been a school teacher and a secretary. Rozella is a widow of Lorin F. Ashbaucher and lives in John Knox Village of Central Florida. She had her poetry printed in local neighborhood papers and plans to have her poems made into a book. She wrote under her maiden name Rozella Elizabeth Dillard.

If I Should Lose the Whole Wide World

If I should lose the whole wide world
And still have thoughts of you,
I'd think myself the richest girl
Tho' poor, it might be true.

I would not mind the poverty
For love, they say, is blind,
And I would find my wealth;
you see,
Of quite a different kind,

If I should lose the whole wide world,
Yet know you loved me true,
I'd feel that I had found my wealth,
The day that I met you.

I'm Floating Back to Dreamland

I'm floating back to Dreamland
Cause I know that you'll be there,
With violets on your shoulder
And roses in your hair.
I'll meet you in the garden
Where memories never fade,
And we'll live there forever
In the land where dreams are made.

Do You?

Do you do a good turn daily,
Lend a helping hand in need,
To some friend by sorrow broken,
Or a stranger on the street?

Do you smile when life seems dreary,
And your friends give way to woes;
Help to make their pathway cheery,
Urge them on to make their goal?

Do you pat them on the shoulder;
Tell them troubles soon will end,
It they pick up pluck and courage,
Trust in God, they're sure to win?
Do you?