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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Miscellaneous Poems. IV. A Death of a Firstborn

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

ONE young life lost, two happy young lives blighted,

With earthward eyes we see:

With eyes uplifted, keener, farther-sighted,

We look, O Lord, to Thee.

Grief hears a funeral knell: hope hears the ringing

Of birthday bells on high;

Faith, hope, and love make answer with soft singing,

Half carol and half cry.

Stoop to console us, Christ, Sole Consolation,

While dust returns to dust;

Until that blessed day when all Thy Nation

Shall rise up of the Just.