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ROSE AND LEAF
All the roses now are gone,
All their glories shed:
Here's a rose that grows not wan,
Rose of love to wear upon
Your fair breast instead.
All their glories shed:
Here's a rose that grows not wan,
Rose of love to wear upon
Your fair breast instead.
Everywhere sere leaves are seen
Golden, red and grey:
Here's a leaf for ever green,
Leaf of truth to hold between
Your white hands alway.
Golden, red and grey:
Here's a leaf for ever green,
Leaf of truth to hold between
Your white hands alway.
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Here's my leaf and here's my rose.
Take them. They are yours.
In my garden nothing grows,
Garden of my heart, God knows,
That as long endures.
Take them. They are yours.
In my garden nothing grows,
Garden of my heart, God knows,
That as long endures.
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