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A SONNET TO LOVE'S TRANSIENT ROSES, by                    
First Line: Night - long I lay amid love's fragrant roses
Last Line: Return to haunt my reveries at night?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


Night-long I lay amid Love's fragrant roses.
The scented breath of myriad blossoms bold
Caressed my dream-closed eyes with perfumes old
As any fallen rose that now reposes
Within the dust an ancient shrine encloses.
It seemed that in my arms I did enfold
The garnered beauty of the years untold.
Yet at the dawn I held but faded roses.

Ah, Lord, are buds more brief than dreams and dust?
Is fragrance transient as the wind that blows?
Or will an endless essence of delight
Perfume my years and hold in sacred trust
Eternal roses? Will my heart's one rose
Return to haunt my reveries at night?





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