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THE RED-LEAVED ROSE. 
and shortly after, by his influence, she was 
elected by the flowers the Queen of Love and 
Beauty. We prefer this version of the co¬ 
louring of the Bose to the tragical details 
related in the account of the death of Adonis. 
ILLUSTRATION OF THE SENTIMENT. 
Here this rose, 
This one fresh blown, shall be my Mary’s portion. 
For that, like it, her blush is beautiful. 
Barry Cornwall. 
Go, lovely rose I 
Tell her that wastes her time and me, 
That now she knows, 
When I resemble her to thee. 
How sweet and fair she seems to be. 
Tell her that’s young. 
And shuns to have her graces spied, 
That, hadst thou sprung 
In deserts where no men abide. 
Thou must have uncommended died. 
