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The Rosa Sanguinea

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

As often as a martyr dies,
This opes its petals to the skies;
And Nature by this trace alone
Informs us which way he is gone.




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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
• Boethius


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    Testimony Regarding a Ghost
    by Carl Sandburg
    THE ROSES slanted crimson sobs On the night sky hair of the women, And the long light-fingered men Spoke to the dark-haired women, “Nothing lovelier, nothing lovelier.”