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1837–1909

IV.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rose, round whose bed Dawn's cloudlets close, Earth's brightest-bred Rose!

No song, love knows, May praise the head Your curtain shows. Ere sleep has fled,

The whole child glows One sweet live red Rose.

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