“Rose is in red,
But never in blue,
Sharp as a thorn,
Fights like one too.”
Source: Shadow Kiss
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
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The Narrow Way (1848)
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Earth yields no scents like those;
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Hesperides (1648)