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Wild Rose of Colorado

by Ruby Archer

O sweet wild rose on the mountain
Where pine-tree forest shields,
Why are your petals pinker
Than roses in lowland fields?

"I dwell here lonely and pensive,
All in the shade and hush;
And I see the sun so rarely,
I cannot help but blush."

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