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MRS. CLEMENT SHORTER
(Dora Sigerson) A ROSE WILL FADE
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OU were always a dreamer, Rose—red Rose, As you swung on your perfumed spray, Swinging, and all the word was true, Swaying, what did it trouble you ? A rose will fade in a day.
Why did you smile to his face, red Rose,
As he whistled across your way ? And all the world went mad for you, All the world it knelt to woo.
A rose will bloom in a day.
I gather your petals, Rose—red Rose,
The petals he threw away. And all the world derided you; Ah ! the world, how well it knew
A rose will fade in a day!
ALL SOULS NIGHT
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MOTHER, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board spread, I prayed for his coming to our kind Lady when Death's sad doors would let out the dead ; A strange wind rattled the window-pane, and down the lane a dog howled on ; |
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