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 And thus, what can we do,
 Poor rose and poet too,
  Who both antedate our mission
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 And thus, what can we do,
 Poor rose and poet too,
  Who both antedate our mission
   In an unprepared season? 
 I wish I might a rose-bud grow
 And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.
  To place read more 
 I wish I might a rose-bud grow
 And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.
  To place me on that breast of snow
   Where I should bloom a wintry flower. 
 All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
 Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.  
 All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
 Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. 
 Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
 Go tell her all I fain would dare,
  Tell her read more 
 Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
 Go tell her all I fain would dare,
  Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,
   Tell her of all I fain would sing,
    Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing. 
 'Twas a yellow rose,
 By that south window of the little house,
  My cousin Romney gathered with read more 
 'Twas a yellow rose,
 By that south window of the little house,
  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand
   On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;
    And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,
     For roses to stay after. 
Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
A white rosebud for a guerdon.
A white rosebud for a guerdon.
 Till the rose's lips grow pale
 With her sighs.  
 Till the rose's lips grow pale
 With her sighs. 
 You smell a rose through a fence:
 If two should smell it, what matter?  
 You smell a rose through a fence:
 If two should smell it, what matter?