Canto

1     1|  surveys~Gay with the flowering thorn and vermeil rose:~The tuft
2     2| confined,~Ditch, river, tangled thorn, or marble block;~He swims
3     8|         rocks, and shagged with thorn,~Rogero wends, to seek the
4    19|     himself again in sheltering thorn.~Secure and distant was
5    20|     rose, new-gathered from the thorn.~He having armed a bark,
6    25|      well might gather from the thorn:~My longing only is of hope
7    27|       roses also blossom on the thorn,~And the fair lily springs