“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Variant: Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Source: The Secret Garden
“There's a dream where the contents are visible
Where the poetic champions compose
Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and
Will you still be my special rose?”
Queen of the Slipstream
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
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