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Roses red and roses white / Plucked I for my love's delight. / She would none of all my posies,- / Bade me gather her blue roses. / Half the world I wandered through, / Seeking where such flowers grew; / Half the world unto my quest / Answered but with laugh and jest. / It may be beyond the grave / She shall find what she would have. / Mine was but an idle quest,- / Roses white and red are best! - / _Blue Roses_.
The sea had not changed. Its waters were low on the mud-banks, and the Marazion Bell-buoy clanked and swung in the tide-way. On the white beach-sand dried stumps of sea-poppy shivered and chattered.