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I Have A Little Husband

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

I have a little husband
And he is gone to sea,
The winds that whistle round his ship
Fly home to me.
The winds that sigh about me
Return again to him;
So I would fly, if only I
Were light of limb.




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