A Symbol Rose.
EX EMMA AI.ME lir.O'-XE
She sends me to choose her a ha’f blown rose, For ihe soft, black braids of tier -dsen hsirl The loveliest blossom that bills and blows, Were scarcely tilting for her to wear, My lady Honora, she is so fair.
Here in the roaery flourish a score: How shall I choose one wnere ah are swre.? This Marshal Niel, bri-umiug and hubb-iug e'e-r
With sunshine, and honey, scu rcent were meet. Bat—yellow rosea imply deceit. And here is a dainty one, white a? cream, Half blown, and smel.ing IA-’ Arahyuteit ! But not for my hopes would I have htr dream Its fatal -igniffcance I tad g i. ssed—“Faultless —but cold aa the heart in thy breast
What if I call her this Bon Silene, Flushed like the morning with heart ol gold? But scorn and arrogance lurk, I ween, In every satin and superb fold— And Nora is neither disdainful not cold. Ah! here is one, pink as her finger tips ! hhe has kissed its bright petals to richer glow! For only the touch of her scarlet lips, Sweet as the Hardens of Gul, I kn-w, Could kindle and color a tc?ebud so. So ’-'is i? the blossom I choose father, Nor gue?-, nor care, what its meaning be, If only its pa-sion&tc breath may stir The depths of her young heart, fancy free, And waken its sleeping chords for me!
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2041, 11 March 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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238A Symbol Rose. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2041, 11 March 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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