A Red, Red Rose

“A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground”

Community readers hear a possible nod to Robert Burns's "A Red, Red Rose" in the image of the red rose, the best known red rose in the song tradition and a touchstone of the Scottish Romantic-era songbook the lakes otherwise steeps itself in. Offered as a reader's association rather than a stated source; the line's primary work in the song remains the winter-bloom paradox the hosts read, a rose improbably alive in frozen ground.