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NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE SAID NAY, WHILE HOPE KEPT SAYING
Last Line: LOVE SAID NAY.
LOVE said nay, while Hope kept saying
All his sweetest say,
Hope so keen to start a-maying! --
Love said nay.

Love was bent to watch and pray;
Long the watching, long the praying;
Hope grew drowsy, pale and grey.

Hope in dreams set off a-straying,
All his dream - world flushed by May;
While unslumbering, praying, weighing,
Love said nay.



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