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Under The Ivy Bush

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Under the ivy bush
One sits sighing,
And under the willow tree
One sits crying: -
Under the ivy bush
Cease from your sighing,
But under the willow-tree
Lie down a-dying.




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