Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By John JamesPiatt601 Rose and Root
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Beloved alike by bird and bee,
Takes for the dark Root little care
That toils below it ceaselessly.
“Pride of the Summer, garden queen,
Why livest thou thy little hour?”
And the Rose answered, “I am seen.”
“I mine the earth content,” it said,
“A hidden miner underfoot:
I know a Rose is overhead.”