To a Friend who Sent me some Roses

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With the Holidays coming from, chances are you might have a friend or loved one who sent you some roses.  I dedicate this verse from John Keats to them:

As late I rambled in the happy fields,

What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew

From his lush clover covert; when anew

Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields

A fresh-blown musk-rose; ‘twas the first that threw

Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew

As is the wand that Queen Titania wields.

And, as I feasted on its fragrancy,

I thought the garde-rose it far excell’d:

But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me,

My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:

Soft voices had they, that with tender plea

Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell’d.

John Keats

1795-1817

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