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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

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

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[A motherless soft lambkin]

A motherless soft lambkin
Alone upon a hill;
No mother's fleece to shelter him
And wrap him from the cold:—
I'll run to him and comfort him,
I'll fetch him, that I will;

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I'll care for him and feed him
Until he's strong and bold.