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WITHERING by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: FADE TENDER LILY
Last Line: BACK TO PLEASANT SPRING.
Subject(s): AUTUMN; CHANGE; FLOWERS; SEASONS; FALL;
Fade tender lily,
Fade O crimson rose,
Fade every flower
Sweetest flower that blows.

Go chilly Autumn,
Come O Winter cold;
Let the green things die away
Into common mould.

Birth follows hard on death,
Life on withering:
Hasten, we shall come the sooner
Back to pleasant Spring.



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