The roses are dying, and so am I.

 

The roses are dying, and so am I.
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Shortly before his death, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1854372319.

 

James Bolivar Manson

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