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The Rose - Christina Georgina Rossetti
Read "The Rose," by Christina Rossetti, who writes: "O Rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder..."
The Rose in the Deeps of His Heart - William Butler Yeats
Read "The Rose in the Deeps of His Heart," by William Butler Yeats.
The Rose of Dixie - O Henry
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