Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 75.
“God gave His children memory
That in life's garden there might be
June roses in December.”
Source: from Roses in December, in Songs of Faith and Doubt (1922) https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/roses-december
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