Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose-Tree

Tuesday 3 August 2004.
 
A flower was offered to me,
                 Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, ’I’ve a pretty rose tree,’
                 And I passed the sweet flower o’er.
 
Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
                 To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
                 And her thorns were my only delight.



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