| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 328. Song |
| By Alfred Noyes (b. 1880) |
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From ‘The Forest of Wild Thyme’
WHAT is there hid in the heart of a rose, | |
| Mother-mine? | |
| Ah, who knows, who knows, who knows? | |
| A man that died on a lonely hill | |
| May tell you, perhaps, but none other will, | 5 |
| Little child. | |
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| What does it take to make a rose, | |
| Mother-mine? | |
| The God that died to make it knows | |
| It takes the world’s eternal wars, | 10 |
| It takes the moon and all the stars, | |
| It takes the might of heaven and hell | |
| And the everlasting Love as well, | |
| Little child. | |
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