To a Rose

by Frank Dempster Sherman English

Go, rose, and in her golden hair   You shall forget the garden soon; The sunshine is a captive there   And crowns her with a constant noon. And when your spicy odor goes,   And fades the beauty of your bloom, Think what a lovely hand, O Rose,   Shall place your body in the tomb!

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