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TWO QUESTIONS by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: HEART OF THE SOFT, WILD ROSE
Last Line: LIFE, IS THERE MORE FOR ME?
Subject(s): LIFE;

HEART of the soft, wild rose
Hid in a forest close
Far from the world away,
Sweet for a night and day.
Rose, is it good to be sweet,
Sun and the dews to greet?
Life that is mine to keep
In travail, play and sleep
Firm on a tossing ball,
Drilled to march at a call;
Work, love, death -- these three --
Life, is there more for me?



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