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Peace is the rose. wrought out of truth,
thorny with trial, imbued with beauty.

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The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
W.B. Yeats

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintery mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

The wrong of unshapely things is to great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, remade, like a casket of gold
for my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.