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Take this white rose, love,
 Stainless as thou,
Let it repose, love,
 By thy fair brow!

And as its fragrance
 Softly steals by,
Sweet as thy balmy breath,
 Pure as thy sigh,

Think of the lover,
 In whose food sight,
No gem of Ophir
 Makes thee more bright!