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The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 5
Died: 1894
Died: December 29
Hymnwriter
Poet
Writer
London
England
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina G. Rossetti
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Easy
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Downhill

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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
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Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.
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Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. (The Key-Note)
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To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.
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Spring is when life's alive in everything.
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What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
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Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.
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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
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Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.
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Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
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Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.
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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.
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Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
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