She Gave Me A Rose

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Title:     She Gave Me A Rose
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar [More Titles by Dunbar]

She gave a rose,
And I kissed it and pressed it.
I love her, she knows,
And my action confessed it.
She gave me a rose,
And I kissed it and pressed it.

Ah, how my heart glows,
Could I ever have guessed it?
It is fair to suppose
That I might have repressed it:
She gave me a rose,
And I kissed it and pressed it.

'T was a rhyme in life's prose
That uplifted and blest it.
Man's nature, who knows
Until love comes to test it?
She gave me a rose,
And I kissed it and pressed it.

[The end]
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem: She Gave Me A Rose

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