The Spirit's Riddle
Comes one: "Here is a tower."
Comes one: "A sack of gold."
The third holds out a sprig of brier,
Just plucked from the young mould.
Now, shall I take the tower—
So strange a thing Life goes—
The gold all bursting out the sack?
Or shall I take the rose?
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