<Dd> sugar is sweet, </Dd> <Dd> And so are you . </Dd> <P> The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6): </P> <Dl> <Dd> It was upon a Sommers shynie day, </Dd> <Dd> When Titan faire his beames did display, </Dd> <Dd> In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew, </Dd> <Dd> She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay; </Dd> <Dd> She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew, </Dd> <Dd> And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew . </Dd> </Dl>

Who started roses are red violets are blue