Colby Quarterly
Volume 20
Issue 4 December
December 1984
The Rose Family
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Colby Library Quarterly, Volume 20, no.4, December 1984, p.206
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et al.: The Rose Family
The Rose Family
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a roseBut were always a rose.
From The Poetry ofRobert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1928, (c) 1969
by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Copyright (c) 1956 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers.
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