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BALLAD: TIME OF ROSES, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not in the winter / our loving lot was cast!
Last Line: We pluck'd them as we pass'd!
Variant Title(s): It Was The Time Of Roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Roses


IT was not in the Winter
Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time of roses --
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!

That churlish season never frown'd
On early lovers yet:
O no -- the world was newly crown'd
With flowers when first we met!

'Twas twilight, and I bade you go,
But still you held me fast;
It was the time of roses --
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!





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