Dooryard Roses

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An illustration for the story Dooryard Roses by the author Sara Teasdale
A. Barra, Rosa Old Blush, 1987
An illustration for the story Dooryard Roses by the author Sara Teasdale
A. Barra, Rosa Old Blush, 1987
An illustration for the story Dooryard Roses by the author Sara Teasdale
I have come the selfsame path
To the selfsame door,
Years have left the roses there
Burning as before

While I watch them in the wind
Quick the hot tears start,
Strange so frail a flame outlasts
Fire in the heart.

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