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A Pair of Posies for John Skelton
Marguerite Reject the rose: Platonic nose The wind blows, Its rosy clenches, Soft phalanges, Green revenges; Without charity, Its plum parity A little arty - Plucked sparrow, All marrow And no harrow: Reject the rosel Rose Let me enter, Pale to a sun's center, Pale as winter, Gold as wheat, Fringed, discreet Marguerite] Patient power Along this flower The unkept hour Greens to gold- But cannot hold For long the cold Bleaching. How, Lapped like snow And even now, The petals ice, Are old. O Christ, Margaret, twice We burn: burn center Gold-and winter Cold. Let me enter!