The Rose Has Left The Garden

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Title:     The Rose Has Left The Garden
Author: Richard Le Gallienne [More Titles by Le Gallienne]

The Rose has left the garden,
Here she but faintly lives,
Lives but for me,
Within this little urn of pot-pourri
Of all that was
And never more can be,
While her black berries harden
On the wind-shaken tree.
Yet if my song a little fragrance gives,
'Tis not all loss,
Something I save
From the sweet grave
Wherein she lies,
Something she gave
That never dies,
Something that may still live
In these my words
That draw from her their breath,
And fain would be her birds
Still in her death.

[The end]
Richard Le Gallienne's poem: Rose Has Left The Garden

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