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The Rosebuds |
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Title: The Rosebuds Author: Henry Timrod [More Titles by Timrod] Yes, in that dainty ivory shrine, One night they lay upon a breast Near that chaste heart they seemed to me Buds that shall bloom beside my hearth, Ah me! the pathos of the thought! I know not if she marked the flame There was a murmur soft and low; How far my fancy dared to stray, Passed in a mist of happy tears, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |