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TO ---, WITH A ROSE.
I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay
Upon my Lady's natal day.
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay
Upon my Lady's natal day.
Then said my heart to me:
Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
What fits thy Love most lovingly.
Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
What fits thy Love most lovingly.
This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
I send a rose unto a Rose.
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
I send a rose unto a Rose.
Philadelphia, 1876.
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