SparkNotes: Complete Text of Songs of Innocence and Experience: Poem 28

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Poem 28:
THE SICK ROSE

O rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

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