What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow; What are brief? Today and tomorrow; What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth; What are deep? The ocean and truth.
ATTRIBUTION:
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), British poet. What Are Heavy? (Sing-Song) (l. 1–4). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press.
