Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/The Two Roses

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Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878
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The Two Roses

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The Two Roses.

From the Italian.

My Lilla gave me yester-mornA rose, methinks in Eden born,And as she gave it, little elf,Blushed like another rose herself.Then said I, full of tenderness, "Since this sweet rose I owe to you,Dear girl, why may I not possess The lovelier rose that gave it, too?"