I Sometimes Think That Never Blows So Red The Rose As Where Some Buried Cæsar Bled

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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
-- Rubáiyát. Stanza xix.

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