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First Line: I win the summer back again
Last Line: At touch of this dead rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer


I WIN the summer back again
At touch of this dead rose. --
O lavish joy! O tender pain!
The very June wind blows,
And thrills me with the old refrain
Whose music my heart knows:
I win the summer back again
At touch of this dead rose.

Ah, lost is all the summer's gain,
And lost my heart's repose;
And was it tears or was it rain
That wept the season's close?
The winter suns they coldly wane;
White fall the winter snows:
But Love and Summer come again
At touch of this dead rose.





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