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 "id": "james-mcintyre/every-rose-hath-its-thorn",
 "title": "Every Rose Hath Its Thorn",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "There was a maiden all forlorn,",
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   {
    "text": "She loved a youth, his name was Thorn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he was shy for to disclose",
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   {
    "text": "How he loved dear the sweet May Rose.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Lustre sweet it would give to Thorn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If this fair flower would it adorn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Said he all other names above",
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   {
    "text": "Your charming name alone I love.",
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   {
    "text": "Said she of beauty ’tis soon shorn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unless that it is joined to Thorn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It very soon doth droop and die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And she heaved a gentle sigh.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Said he we’ll wed to-morrow morn,",
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   {
    "text": "No more from me you shall be torn,",
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   {
    "text": "For you will banish all my woes,",
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   {
    "text": "And near my heart I’ll wear the rose.",
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    "text": "Now little rose buds they are born,",
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    "text": "All clinging to the parent Thorn,",
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    "text": "In grace and beauty each one grows,",
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    "text": "Full worthy of the sweet May Rose.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Some flowers they only shed their bloom",
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   {
    "text": "In the sweet month of leafy June,",
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   {
    "text": "But May doth bloom each month in year",
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   {
    "text": "A fragrant Rose forever dear.",
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