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My Rose.

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Pigmy seraphs gone astray,     Velvet people from Vevay,     Belles from some lost summer day,     Bees' exclusive coterie.     Paris could not lay the fold     Belted down with emerald;     Venice could not show a cheek     Of a tint so lustrous meek.     Never such an ambuscade     As of brier and leaf displayed     For my little damask maid.     I had rather wear her grace     Than an earl's distinguished face;     I had rather dwell like her     Than be Duke of Exeter     Royalty enough for me     To subdue the bumble-bee!

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