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1830–1894

WITHIN THE VEIL

Christina Georgina Rossetti

She holds a lily in her hand, Where long ranks of Angels stand, A silver lily for her wand. All her hair falls sweeping down;

Her hair that is a golden brown, A crown beneath her golden crown. Blooms a rose-bush at her knee, Good to smell and good to see:

It bears a rose for her, for me; Her rose a blossom richly grown, My rose a bud not fully blown, But sure one day to be mine own.

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