The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

She Gave Me a Rose

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She gave a rose,

And I kissed it and pressed it.

I love her, she knows,

And my action confessed it.

She gave me a rose,

And I kissed it and pressed it.

Ah, how my heart glows,

Could I ever have guessed it?

It is fair to suppose

That I might have repressed it:

She gave me a rose,

And I kissed it and pressed it.

'T was a rhyme in life's prose

That uplifted and blest it.

Man's nature, who knows

Until love comes to test it?

She gave me a rose,

And I kissed it and pressed it.

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