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My pretty rose tree
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A flower was offered to me,<br/>
Died.
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Such a flower as May never bore;<br/>
I cried.
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But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’<br/>
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And I passed the sweet flower o’er.
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Then I went to my pretty rose tree,<br/>
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To tend her by day and by night;<br/>
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But my rose turned away with jealousy,<br/>
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And her thorns were my only delight.
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==Credit==
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[[Songs of Experience]] by [[William Blake]]
  
 
[[Category:Poems]]
 
[[Category:Poems]]

Latest revision as of 02:39, 1 August 2006

A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’
And I passed the sweet flower o’er.

Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.

Credit[edit]

Songs of Experience by William Blake