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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.

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
Leafs
Fields
Whose
Leaf
Away
Doth
Like
Brief
Mortality
Lilies
Fades
Bloom
Field
Fade
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