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I LIFT MINE EYES TO SEE: EARTH VANISHETH by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: I lift mine eyes to see
Subject(s): DEATH;

I LIFT mine eyes to see: earth vanisheth.
I lift up wistful eyes and bend my knee:
Trembling, bowed down, and face to face with Death,
I lift mine eyes to see.

Lo what I see is Death that shadows me:
Yet whilst I, seeing, draw a shuddering breath,
Death like a mist grows rare perceptibly.

Beyond the darkness light, beyond the scathe
Healing, beyond the Cross a palm- branch tree,
Beyond Death Life, on evidence of faith:
I lift mine eyes to see.



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