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Once For All.

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(Margaret.)     I said: This is a beautiful fresh rose.     I said: I will delight me with its scent,     Will watch its lovely curve of languishment,     Will watch its leaves unclose, its heart unclose.     I said: Old Earth has put away her snows,     All living things make merry to their bent,     A flower is come for every flower that went     In autumn; the sun glows, the south wind blows.     So walking in a garden of delight     I came upon one sheltered shadowed nook     Where broad leaf shadows veiled the day with night,     And there lay snow unmelted by the sun: -     I answered: Take who will the path I took,     Winter nips once for all; love is but one.

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