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Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
Christina Rossetti
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Christina Rossetti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 5
Died: 1894
Died: December 29
Hymnwriter
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London
England
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina G. Rossetti
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It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.
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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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O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
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Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
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And may you happy live, And long us bless.
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And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.
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I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when I thought it should be strong It opened at the matin hour And fell at even-song.
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Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.
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Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.
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What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.
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All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
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As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands Death is the fruit it bore.
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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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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
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