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YE THAT FEAR HIM, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: GREAT OR SMALL BELOW
Last Line: CROWNED, DISCROWNED, IN ADORATION OF THEE.
GREAT or small below,
Great or small above;
Be we Thine, whom Thou dost know
And love:

First or last on earth,
First or last in Heaven;
Only weighted with Thy worth,
And shriven.

Wise or ignorant,
Strong or weak; Amen;
Sifted now, cast down, in want: -- But then?

Then, -- when sun nor moon,
Time nor death, finds place,
Seeing in the eternal noon Thy Face:

Then, -- when tears and sighing,
Changes, sorrows, cease;
Living by Thy Life undying In peace:

Then, -- when all creation
Keeps its jubilee,
Crowned amid Thy holy nation;
Crowned, discrowned, in adoration Of Thee.



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