Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836-1907

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Human Ignorance

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What mortal knows
Whence come the tint and odor of the rose
What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Source:

Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
Copyright 1876
James R. Osgood And Company, Boston
 

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