SHE SAT AND SANG

by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

      HE sat and sang alway
      By the green margin of a stream,
      Watching the fishes leap and play
      Beneath the glad sunbeam.
       
      I sat and wept alway
      Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
      Watching the blossoms of the May
      Weep leaves into the stream.
       
      I wept for memory;
      She sang for hope that is so fair:
      My tears were swallowed by the sea;
      Her songs died in the air.

"She Sat and Sang" is reprinted from Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. Christina Rosetti. London: Macmillan 1879.

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