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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

A variorum edition: Edited, with textual notes and introductions, by R. W. Crump

Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)

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I have done with hope;
Have done with lies from sea to sea:
How should I lie beneath the cope
Of Heaven's star-blazoned verity?

I will not wear your crown tonight,
But mine own crown tomorrow morn:

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[The lines of the poem preceding and following the above are missing from the notebook.]