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THE EXILES by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: LOOK, - THE NEW ROSE IS RICH AND FAIR
Last Line: THAT KEPT LIFE SWEET.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; ROSES;

LOOK, -- the New Rose is rich and fair.
She puts imperial raiment on.
She hath the large imperial air;
But whither is the perfume gone?

Banished afar, it fled on wings
That bore it hence in haste unmeet,
With all the other cast-out things
That kept life sweet.



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