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In among the tall weeds / There lives a brier rose. / Bright among the rugged reeds / She bends and blooms and blows. / The ragged bloom around her grows, / And rough and rude her bed: / But kisses of the wind she knows, / And blushes warm and red.
The sunny moor before her lies / The stream runs bright and clear. / She does not reck o' sombre skies, / Nor knows the changing year. / She has no ken o' winter drear, / Nor dreads the frost and storm: / For summer winds have called her _Dear_, / She blushes red and warm.