X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,80b21d6173ede84a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-13 19:52:29 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!waikato!canterbury.ac.nz!equinox.gen.nz!equinox!Colin_Douthwaite Subject: The Rose Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL3] From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 13:42:12 +1200 Organization: Equinox Networks Lines: 49 The Rose . . ... :``..': Some say love it is the river : ````.' :''::' that drowns the tender reed. ..:.. : .'' : Some say love it is a razor ``. `: .' : that leaves your soul to bleed. : : : : Some say love it is a hunger : : : : an endless aching need. : : : : I say love it is a flower : : :..''''``::. and you, its only seed. : ...:..' .'' .' .' .::::' It's the heart afraid of breaking :..'''``::::::: that never learns to dance. ' `:::: It's the dream afraid of waking `::. that never takes the chance. `:: It's the one who won't be taken :::. who cannot seem to give, ..:```.:'`. ::'`. and the soul afraid of dying ..' `:.: :: that never learns to live. .: .:``::: .: ..'' ::: When the night has been too lonely : .'' :: and the road has been too long, : :: and you think that love is only : for the lucky and the strong, : just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose..... [ poet unknown ] .-~~-.--. : ) .~ ~ -.\ /.- ~~ . > `. .' < ( .- -. ) `- -.-~ `- -' ~-.- -' ( : ) _ _ .-: ~--. : .--~ .-~ .-~ } ~-.-^-.-~ \_ .~ .-~ .~ \ \' \ '_ _ -~ `.`. // -Lian Wang- . - ~ ~-.__`.`-.// .-~ . - ~ }~ ~ ~-.~-. .' .-~ .-~ :/~-.~-./: /_~_ _ . - ~ ~-.~-._ ~-.<