<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413336" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Rose was given to man for this:<br> He, sudden seeing it in later years,<br>Should swift remember Love's first lingering kiss<br> And Grief's last lingering tears; <br>Or, being blind, should feel its yearning soul<br> Knit all its piercing perfume round his own,<br>Till he should see on memory's ample scroll<br> All roses he had known; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, being hard, perchance his finger-tips<br> Careless might touch the satin of its cup,<br>And he should feel a dead babe's budding lips<br> To his lips lifted up; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, being deaf and smitten with its star,<br> Should, on a sudden, almost hear a lark<br>Rush singing up­the nightingale afar<br> Sing through the dew-bright dark; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, sorrow-lost in paths that round and round<br> Circle old graves, its keen and vital breath<br>Should call to him within the yew's bleak bound<br> Of Life, and not of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413336" data-title="The Rose de Isabella Valancy Crawford" data-description="The Rose was given to man for this: He, sudden seeing it in later years, Should swift remember Love's first lingering kiss And Grief's last lingering tears; Or, being blind, should feel its yearning soul Knit all its piercing perfume round his..."></div> </div> </div>

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