The Rose

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You have forgot: it once was red With life, this rose, to which you said,-- When, there in happy days gone by, You plucked it, on my breast to lie,-- "Sleep there, O rose! how sweet a bed Is thine!--And, heart, be comforted; For, though we part and roses shed Their leaves and fade, love cannot die.--" You have forgot. So by those words of yours I'm led To send it you this day you wed. Look well upon it. You, as I, Should ask it now, without a sigh, If love can lie as it lies dead.-- You have forgot.

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