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72
THE ROSE.
Where is the Rose I gave you, sir?
Is this the sorry way
You treat the gifts that I confer?
Come—have you lost it, eh?
Or—valued it as much as her
You used to love—in play?
Is this the sorry way
You treat the gifts that I confer?
Come—have you lost it, eh?
Or—valued it as much as her
You used to love—in play?
The Rose is gone, but, sweet, the fact
Is such a flower scatters
So easily its petals packed,
Your gift so highly flatters,
That—in one wild impulsive act
I kissed it all to tatters!
Is such a flower scatters
So easily its petals packed,
Your gift so highly flatters,
That—in one wild impulsive act
I kissed it all to tatters!
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