Chapter 34 No.34

The time of roses came again;

And one had bloomed within the manse,

Bloomed in a burst of midnight pain,

And plumed its life in fair expanse,

Beneath love's nursing sun and rain.

In calyx fair of lilied lawn,

Wrapped in the mosses of the lamb,

Long days it lightened toward the dawn

Of the bright-blushing oriflamme,

That o