A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The rose is red, the violet's blue (2)

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177902A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes — The rose is red, the violet's blue1895Sabine Baring-Gould


LIV.

The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The violet's sweet, and so are you;
These the words you bade me say,
For a pair of gloves on Easter day.