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Christina Rossetti

Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;
Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee to-morrow?
    Beautiful, tender—what else?
        A hope tells.

Beautiful, tender, keeping the jubilee
In the land of home together, past death and sea;
    No more change or death, no more
        Salt sea-shore.

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From Poems | Little, Brown, and Company, 1906

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