How will you have it ? - the rose is all in all ,
Or the ripe rose-fruits of the luscious fall ?
The sharp begetting, or the child begot ?
Our consummation matters , or does it not ?
To me it seems the seed is just left over
From the red rose-flowers' fiery transience ;
Just orts and slarts ; berries that smoulder in the bush
Which burnt just now with marvellous immanence .

" Rose of All the World "
--- D. H. Lawrence
( 1885 - 1930 )