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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Rose and Thorn: Anonymous (date undetermined)

By The Greek Anthology

Translation of John William Mackail

THE ROSE is at her prime a little while; which once past, thou wilt find when thou seekest, no rose, but a thorn.