Katharine Lee Bates

Aug. 12, 1859 - Mar. 28, 1929

 

Love Planted A Rose

by Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet.
Where the wheat-field blows
Love planted a rose.
Up the mill-wheel's prose
Ran a music-beat.
Love planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet.

Source:

Yellow Clover: A Book Of Remembrance
Copyright 1922
E. P. Dutton & Company, New York