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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By HamlinGarland

1397 The Greeting of the Roses

WE had been long in mountain snow,

In valleys bleak, and broad, and bare,

Where only moss and willows grow,

And no bird wings the silent air.

And so, when on our downward way

Wild roses met us, we were glad:

They were so girlish fair, so gay,

It seemed the sun had made them mad.