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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Ralph Hodgson1871–1962

The Mystery

HE came and took me by the hand

Up to a red rose tree,

He kept His meaning to Himself

But gave a rose to me.

I did not pray Him to lay bare

The mystery to me,

Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,

And His own face to see.