Dante Gabriel Rossetti

12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882 / London / England

Michael Scott’s Wooing -

ROSE-SHEATHED beside the rosebud tongue
Lurks the young adder's tooth;
Milk-mild from new-born hemlock-bluth
The earliest drops are wrung:
And sweet the flower of his first youth
When Michael Scott was young.
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