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| THE LILY AND THE ROSE. 1 
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| BY COWPER. 1 
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| ‘I's nymph must lose her female friend yl 
| i If more admired than she— | 
| an | But where will fierce contention end, | 
} | If flowers can disagree ? 1 
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| Within the garden’s peaceful scene \\ 
| Appear’d two lovely foes, | 
Aspiring to the rank of queen, 1 
The Lily and the Rose. 
The Rose soon redden’d into rage, 
Hl And swelling with disdain, 
Appeal’d to many a poet’s page 
To prove her right to reign. 

| Kering and debate 
| goddess chanced to hear ; 
| And tlew to save, ere yet too late. 
} The pzide of the parterre. 


