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Augusta Davies Webster - OnceAugusta Davies Webster - Once
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I SET a lily long ago;    I watched it whiten in the sun;    I loved it well, I had but one.    Then summer-time was done, The wind came and the rain, My lily bent, lay low. Only the night-time sees my pain— Alas, my lily long ago! I had a rose-tree born in May;    I watched it burgeon and grow red,    I breathed the perfume that it shed.    Then summer-time had sped, The frost came with its sleep My rose-tree died away. Only the silence hears me weep— Alas, lost rose-tree! lost, lost May! The garden`s lily blows once more;    The buried rose will wake and climb;    There is no thought of rain and rime    After, next summer-time. But the heart`s blooms are weak; Once dead for ever o`er. Not night, not silence knows me seek My joy that waned and blooms no more.
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