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THE FATAL ROSE, by                    
First Line: In a fairy-like bower / I found a sweet flower
Last Line: My rose was a passionate love!
Subject(s): Beauty


In a fairy-like bower
I found a sweet flower,
The queen of that beautiful dell;
Her beauty how rare
Enchantingly fair,
No poet or painter can tell.

With a passionate soul
I could not control,
I stealthily bore her away;
Then close to my breast
Her sweet form I prest,
Nor dreams she could ever decay!

Ah! bright were the beams
Of life's summer dreams
That enchantingly played on my brow;
For beauty so rare,
So divine I declare,
Had a magical, mystical pow'r!

But a bleak wint'ry blast
O'ertook me at last,
And it chilled the sweet rose on my heart,
It withered -- it died;
And all life beside
Seemed then from the world to depart!

Ah! tearfully now
I seek for my flow'r,
But her fragrance and beauty have fled;
And naught can I see
Of the sweet used-to-be,
But a sharp deadly thorn in its stead!

What mystery this
That robs me my bliss?
Give answer, O heavens above!
In the lull of the storm
I pluck out that thorn --
My rose was a passionate love!





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