Here you will find the Poem The Four Roses of poet John Crowe Ransom
Four sisters sitting in one house, I said, these roses on a stem With bosoms bare. But wayfaring I went and ravished one of them. So one was taken. But the three, They spread their petals just the same, They turned no decent pale for grief, They drew no fragrance back for shame. The canker is on roses too! I cried, and lifted up the rod And scourged them bleeding to the ground. All, all are sinners unto God.
