A Dark MonthFrom Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V
That grow

Where the frost and the wind never harden

Flakes of snow,

Nor ever is rain

At all,

But the roses rejoice to remain

Fair and tall—

349 The roses of love,

349

More sweet

Than blossoms that rain from above

Round our feet,

When under high bowers

We pass,

Where the west wind freckles with flowers

All the grass.

But a child's thoughts bear

More bright

Sweet visions by day, and more fair

Dreams by night,


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