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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By AlgernonTassin

1719 Attainment

THROUGH my open window comes the sweet perfuming

Of roses reddening under skies of June;

No sight more fair than roses in red bloom,

No air more sweet than doth the rose perfume;

And yet was never there a rose but died in blooming.