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  • The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!

    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.21