Friday, January 18, 2019

The Rose has a Powerful Virtue





The Rose has one powerful virtue to boast above all the flowers of the field:

When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost,

Still how sweet a perfume it will yield.

                                      By Isaac Watts

                                      English theologian and hymn writer

                                      (1674-1748)


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