Gloag, M. R, Wyatt, Katharine Montagu · London, Methuen & co · leaf 168
home of Chaucer andShakespear. A Rose Garden must always possessa magic fascination, perhaps because, as old Geradewrites: The Rose doth deserve the chiefest andmost principall place among all flowers whatsoever ;being not only esteemed for his beautie, virtues, andhis fragrant smell, but also… … THE WALL FOUNTAIN, BROW-NSEA BROWNSEA ISLAND 141 Every poet, from Omar onward, has chanted laysin honour of this Queen of Flowers. The wordsof Cowper picture very nearly the little RoseGarden at Brownsea, save that here the Roses arechiefly pink :— The scentless and the scented Rose; the redAnd of…
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