<Dd> She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew, </Dd> <Dd> And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew . </Dd> <P> A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes: </P> <Dl> <Dd> The rose is red, the violet's blue, </Dd> <Dd> The honey's sweet, and so are you . </Dd> <Dd> Thou are my love and I am thine; </Dd> <Dd> I drew thee to my Valentine: </Dd> <Dd> The lot was cast and then I drew, </Dd> <Dd> And Fortune said it shou'd be you . </Dd> </Dl>

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