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By Josephine PrestonPeabody1672 A Far-Off Rose
O
An hour of sweet, an hour of red,
To live, to breathe, and then to go
Into the dark ere June was dead!
With every year as years go on?
New springtime and strange bloom, my rose,
And alien June; but thou art gone.