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What Are Heavy? Sea-Sand And Sorrow

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? To-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? The ocean and truth.




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