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I GAVE A SWEET SMELL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: SAINTS ARE LIKE ROSES WHEN THEY FLUSH RAREST
Last Line: TO-MORROW BLOTS OUT SORROW.
Subject(s): SAINTS; SMELLS; ODORS; AROMAS; FRAGRANCES;
SAINTS are like roses when they flush rarest,
Saints are like lilies when they bloom fairest,
Saints are like violets sweetest of their kind:
Bear in mind
This to-day. Then tomorrow:
All like roses rarer than the rarest,
All like lilies fairer than the fairest,
All like violets sweeter than we know.
Be it so.
To-morrow blots out sorrow.



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