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1884–1933

The Rose and the Bee

Sara Teasdale

If I were a bee and you were a rose, Would you let me in when the gray wind blows? Would you hold your petals wide apart, Would you let me in to find your heart,

If you were a rose? “If I were a rose and you were a bee, You should never go when you came to me, I should hold my love on my heart at last,

I should close my leaves and keep you fast, If you were a bee.”

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