Poems (Van Rensselaer)/In One Sole Place

by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

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IN ONE SOLE PLACE

In one sole place a rose should blossom now   That thou art dead;Out of thy grave alone its stem should grow, Should spring its lovely head; No other spot on earth   Merits its birth.

And when the moon is waxing slowly bright   I say, NowhereBut on thy grave should fall its silvery light; And gentle birds should there, There only, come to sing   The tales of spring.

If thus the beauty of the world might be   Amassed and kept,Then in that place I think that I should see Thee, thee whom I have wept, And, grief forborne awhile,   Dare then to smile.