Lippincott's Monthly Magazine/Volume 46/Roses of Love
ROSES OF LOVE.
THOUGH oft I pause by this small, grassy mound,
Gemmed with forget-me-not, shadowed by trees,
By soft rains moistened, swept by the sea-breeze,
And over which bird-notes in music sound,
Yet well I know, not here—not underground—
Rests the innocent child whom Memory sees,—
Memory made keen by Love; fairer than these
Fair scenes of earth are those that she has found.
But, when upon her grave I cast a rose,
Methinks, in that pure world where she is blest,
A heavenly blossom into being springs,
Yet tinged with somewhat mortal, and she knows
That some one, still in mortal garments dressed,
Seeks her remembrance, through earth’s purest things.
Julian Hawthorne.
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