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A ROSE FROM MOTHER'S GARDEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose that was the last to fade was one his / mother brought
Last Line: Her mother-love, as sweet, as brave, will blossom on and on.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


The rose that was the last to fade was one his mother brought,
Though on his grave so many laid some lovely floral thought;
But, when the flowers of friendship died, I came his bed to see;
And still her rose the sun defied and lingered tenderly.

Oh, there were richer tributes there that came from richer hands,
The fragile blooms of hot-house care -- but Nature understands;
The rose from Mother's garden still lived on amid the gloom,
And so her fond affection will survive the closing tomb.

For that red rose from out-of-doors had known the stress of strife,
Had known the thunderstorm that pours upon the hills of life,
Had lifted after every rain its head above the rest,
Made stronger by its hour of pain, when pain had been the test.

A rose from Mother's garden! -- so a mother's love survives
The storms that come, the storms that go, each season of our lives;
And when the last rose on the grave, yea even hers, is gone,
Her mother-love, as sweet, as brave, will blossom on and on.





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