Roses . . . Deep Pink

To
            . . .   Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Music, when soft voices die,
    Vibrates in the memory -
    Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
    Live within the sense they quicken.

    Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
    Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
    And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
    Love itself shall slumber on.
 
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