Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/The Two Roses

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The Two Roses.
From the Italian.

My Lilla gave me yester-morn
A rose, methinks in Eden born,
And as she gave it, little elf,
Blushed like another rose herself.
Then said I, full of tenderness,
 "Since this sweet rose I owe to you,
Dear girl, why may I not possess
 The lovelier rose that gave it, too?"

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