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¿Serás mi rosa blanca?

“Cultivo una rosa blanca,
En julio como en enero,
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo,
Cardo ni oruga cultivo
Cultivo una rosa blanca.

Posted - April 7, 2017

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  • ¿Donde?
    Something about a white rose and your best friend.
      April 7, 2017 10:33 PM MDT
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  • Well I do not know Spanish but...Google translate...

    Will you be my white rose?
    Cultivate a white rose,
    In July as in January,
    For the honest friend
    He gives me his frank hand.
    And for the cruel one that rips me
    The heart with which I live,
    Thistle or caterpillar cultivation
    Cultivate a white rose
    * * *
    Quite lovely.

      April 7, 2017 10:43 PM MDT
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  • 1268
    I'm not really fluent in Spanish either but in college we had to recite that poem and I did it on a day when we had about half a dozen native Spanish speakers from Argentina in the room. I was quite nervous, but did well.

    I like a challenge when it comes to learning.
      April 7, 2017 10:45 PM MDT
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  • White roses have gotta be way ahead of caterpillars. 

    My favourite rose poem, though, is only a couplet: 

    The Puritan through life's sweet garden goes,
    To pluck the thorn and throw away the rose.
      April 8, 2017 1:34 AM MDT
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  • Aw...a sad statement of wasted lives...
      April 8, 2017 1:36 AM MDT
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