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WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONE SORROW MORE? I THOUGHT THE TALE COMPLETE
Last Line: ONE SORROW MORE.
'ONE sorrow more? I thought the tale complete.' --
He bore amiss who grudges what he bore:
Stretch out thy hands and urge thy feet to meet
One sorrow more.

Yea, make thy count for two or three or four:
The kind Physician will not slack to treat
His patient while there's rankling in the sore.

Bear up in anguish, ease will yet be sweet;
Bear up all day, for night has rest in store:
Christ bears thy burden with thee, rise and greet
One sorrow more.



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