| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Burnt Are the Petals of Life |
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| BURNT are the petals of life as a rose fallen and crumbled to dust. | |
| Blackened the heart of the past is, ashes that must | |
| Forever be sifted, more precious than sunbeams that open the budding to-morrow. | |
| Once was a passion completed,—too perfect, the Gods have not broken to borrow— | |
| Blackened the heart of the past is, ashes that must | 5 |
| Forever be sifted. O, loving to-morrow | |
| The rose of the past is, Life—Eternity’s dust. | |
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