The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Upon a Virgin Kissing a Rose

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144. UPON A VIRGIN KISSING A ROSE.

'Twas but a single rose,
Till you on it did breathe;
But since, methinks, it shows
Not so much rose as wreath.

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