Paul thought the violets,roses, and lilies of the valley looked even more lovely because they were blooming in the middle of winter.
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The coda lies across the Tiber, within the hallowed walls of the Pantheon, where tributes of flowers - roses, liliesandroses again - are daily offered to Raphael, enclosed in his carved marble tomb.
Roses with their thorns stuck out everywhere, and the lilies, whose columnar stalks the girl had bunched at the center, shot up through the top of the bouquet like, like, like like insane trees towering above some insane world, he thought.