Go, Lovely Rose
Edmund Waller
1606 to 1687
Track 1
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Tell her that wastes her time and me,
Go, lovely rose!
Small is the worth
And shuns to have her graces spied,
The common fate of all things rare
Then die! that she
That now she knows,
In deserts, where no men abide,
When I resemble her to thee,
Suffer herself to be desired,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
How small a part of time they share
That hadst thou sprung
Bid her come forth,
Thou must have uncommended died.
And not blush so to be admired.
Tell her that’s young,
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Of beauty from the light retired;
May read in thee;
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