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Babyhood.

IV.

Rose, round whose bed
Dawn's cloudlets close,
Earth's brightest-bred
Rose!


No song, love knows,
May praise the head
Your curtain shows.


Ere sleep has fled,
The whole child glows
One sweet live red
Rose.