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“The Rose Family” by
Robert Frost
🇺🇸
(
26 Mar 1874
–
29 Jan 1963
)
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 rose—
But were always a rose.