Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume II/A Rose

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870431Poems, Volume II — A RoseFlorence Earle Coates

A ROSE

A SINGLE rose in yonder ruined bed
Makes beauty where all beauty else had fled;
Like love, which, careless or of time or death,
About earth's shattered hopes its tendrils wreathing,
Blooms in the wilderness, divinely breathing,
Till all around grows fragrant with its breath.