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IN THE KINGDOM OF THE ROSE, by                    
First Line: Across the kingdom of the rose
Last Line: In the kingdom of the rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Flowers; Love


ACROSS the kingdom of the rose
Old Father Time a pilgrim goes,
And fills his scrip and bends his knee
At many a roadside priory
Of daffodil and fleur-de-lis —
In the kingdom of the rose.

Like a lighted shrine the orchard glows
Down blosmy lanes; the lily shows
In the hillside sweep of lance and spear
That silver tournaments are near,—
And the poppy's gipsy camps appear
In the kingdom of the rose.

But out of some high country blows
A chiming sweet as Roncevaux's
To guide the pilgrim to his shrine,—
To tell me soon this heart of mine
With Love's own flower shall intertwine
In the kingdom of the rose.





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