The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers…

Christina Rossetti
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The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated), p.185, Delphi Classics
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