Dooryard Roses

Dooryard Roses by Sara Teasdale

From Rivers to the Sea Part I

I HAVE come the selfsame path
      To the selfsame door,
Years have left the roses there
      Burning as before.

While I watch them in the wind
      Quick the hot tears start--
Strange so frail a flame outlasts
      Fire in the heart.

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