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Dooryard Roses

by Sara Teasdale

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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