Thorn And Rose

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Title:     Thorn And Rose
Author: Henry Van Dyke [More Titles by Van Dyke]

Far richer than a thornless rose
Whose branch with beauty never glows,
Is that which every June adorns
With perfect bloom among its thorns.

Merely to live without a pain
Is little gladness, little gain,
Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief,--
The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

June 20, 1914.

[The end]
Henry Van Dyke's poem: Thorn And Rose

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