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First Line: I said: this is a beautiful fresh rose
Last Line: Winter nips once for all; love is but one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


I SAID: This is a beautiful fresh rose.
I said: I will delight me with its scent,
Will watch its lovely curve of languishment,
Will watch its leaves unclose, its heart unclose.
I said: Old earth has put away her snows,
All living things make merry to their bent,
A flower is come for every flower that went
In autumn, the sun glows, the south wind blows.
So walking in a garden of delight
I came upon one sheltered shadowed nook
Where broad leaf shadows veiled the day with night,
And there lay snow unmelted by the sun: --
I answered: Take who will the path I took,
Winter nips once for all; love is but one.





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