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ROSES by GAMALIEL BRADFORD

First Line: GOD MADE ROSES. / WHO MADE YOU,
Last Line: WORTH A BUNCH OF ROSES.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; ROSES;
God made roses. Who made you,
With your purple vesture?
Scorn my flowers and me too
With so great a gesture!

Some day I shall have forgot
Where your dust reposes,
Shall believe your spent heart not
Worth a bunch of roses.



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