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THE MESSAGE by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

First Line: SO FAIR THE WORLD ABOUT ME LIES
Last Line: I WILL SEND UNTO HER THE ROSE.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; GIFTS & GIVING; LOVE; ROSES;
SO FAIR the world about me lies,
So pure is heaven above,
Ere so much beauty dies
I would give a gift to my love;
Now, ere the long day close,
That has been so full of bliss,
I will send to my love the rose,
In its leaves I will shut a kiss;
A rose in the night to perish,
A kiss through life to cherish;
Now, ere the night-wind blows,
I will send unto her the rose.



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