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Brownie, Brownie, Let Down Your Milk

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk
White as swansdown and smooth as silk,
Fresh as dew and pure as snow:
For I know where the cowslips blow,
And you shall have a cowslip wreath
No sweeter scented than your breath.




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