Sunday, November 14, 2010

To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses

"As late I rambled in the happy fields,
  What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew
  From his lush clover covert;—when anew
Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields:
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,         
  A fresh-blown musk-rose; ’twas the first that threw
  Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
As is the wand that queen Titania wields.
And, as I feasted on its fragrancy,
  I thought the garden-rose it far excell’d:         
But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
  My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
Soft voices had they, that with tender plea
  Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell’d."

-John Keats

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