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1866–1922

Sweet Brier Rose

Elizabeth Gordon

Some love the spot where lilies fling Their subtly sweet perfume; Some love the languorous lotus, with Its oriental bloom;

But drifting downward through, the years, My loyal memory goes To where my childhood’ s treasure lives — The wild Sweet Brier Rose.

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