Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FAR OFF ROSE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY



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First Line: O far off rose of long ago
Last Line: And alien june; but thou art gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.


O FAR-OFF rose of long ago,
An hour of sweet, an hour of red,
To live, to breathe, and then to go
Into the dark ere June was dead!

Why say they: Roses shall return
With every year as years go on?
New springtime and strange bloom, my rose,
And alien June; but thou art gone.





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