[Jun8]

The rose branch brought to mind again this poem by Robert Frost which is one of my favorites:

  The rose is a rose,
  And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes
  That the apple's a rose,
  And the pear is, and so's
  The plum, I suppose.
  The dear only knows
  What will next prove a rose.
  You, of course, are a rose -
  But were always a rose.

In one of her letters Jane Austen mentions that they had a game of coming up with powers that rhyme with rose, you may see Jane's, her sister's and others' efforts (rather mundane) efforts here: https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablt18.html#letter97