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Concerning the Rose and the Nightingale, by Grigor Akhtamartsi
(Fifteenth Century) THE Rose was gone. When to the empty tentThe Nightingale returned, his heart was torn.He filled the night with mourning and lament,And wandered through the darkness lone and lorn. ” To thee I speak, O Garden, answer me,Why did’st thou not preserve my precious Rose,Whose perfume breathed of immortality,Whose colour made her queen…