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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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“Can these bones live?”—
“God knows:
The prophet saw such clothed with flesh and skin,
A wind blew on them and life entered in,
They shook and rose.
Hasten the time, O Lord, blot out their sin,
Let life begin.”