Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: I. Time | | A Fancy from Fontenelle | | Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
| | “De mémoires de Roses on n’a point vu mourir le Jardinier.” |
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THE ROSE in the garden slipped her bud, | |
| And she laughed in the pride of her youthful blood, | |
| As she thought of the Gardener standing by— | |
| “He is old—so old! And he soon must die!” | |
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| The full Rose waxed in the warm June air, | 5 |
| And she spread and spread till her heart lay bare; | |
| And she laughed once more as she heard his tread— | |
| “He is older now! He will soon be dead!” | |
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| But the breeze of the morning blew, and found | |
| That the leaves of the blown Rose strewed the ground; | 10 |
| And he came at noon, that Gardener old, | |
| And he raked them gently under the mold. | |
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| And I wove the thing to a random rhyme: | |
| For the Rose is Beauty; the Gardener, Time. | | | |
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