<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nightingale and the Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The song, it echoed sweetly <br>This melody of purity so fine<br>To cause this bud to life<br>To cause this rose to form</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The price to pay… the thorn<br>This precious price to pay with life<br>Pressed against the heart of purity<br>So pure this gentle heart </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in the name of love was formed<br>This rose so red, so rare<br>And with this blood so red<br>This sad song so sweet this night so long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until the thorn so sharp did pierce<br>This gentle feathered heart<br>And spilled the blood to form <br>This red rose, so rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as her song of love grew faint<br>And as her life it spilled unto the rose<br>The dawn approached to quicken this endeavour<br>Lest this rose of love be less than perfect formed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As wilder grew her song so sweet of love<br>As bitter grew the pain as life it ebbed<br> So slowly born this death that does not die<br>So one heart grew the other passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Borne on the wind this melody of song<br>This song so sweet to cause to life<br>This rose of blood, of love, of pain and tears<br>And yet so easily cast into a gutter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mike+Shanahan">Mike Shanahan</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=577510" data-title="The Nightingale and the Rose de Mike Shanahan" data-description="The song, it echoed sweetly This melody of purity so fine To cause this bud to life To cause this rose to form The price to pay… the thorn This precious price to pay with life Pressed against the heart of purity So pure this gentle heart For..."></div> </div> </div>

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