XII

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New Year's Eve

Let her take 'em: they are hers: I shall never garden more:

But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set

About the parlour-window and the box of mignonette.

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