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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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Dear friends and kinsfolk great and small;
Not lost but saved both one and all:
They watch across the parting wall
(Do they not watch?) and count the creep
Of time, and sound the shallowing deep,
Till we in port shall also sleep—
Hallelujah, Amen.