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EASTER DAY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: WORDS CANNOT UTTER
Last Line: CHRIST'S DAY AND OURS.
Subject(s): EASTER; HOLIDAYS; THE RESURRECTION;
WORDS cannot utter
Christ His returning:
Mankind, keep jubilee,
Strip off your mourning,
Crown you with garlands,
Set your lamps burning.

Speech is left speechless;
Set you to singing,
Fling your hearts open wide,
Set your bells ringing:
Christ the Chief Reaper
Comes, His sheaf bringing.

Earth wakes her song-birds,
Puts on her flowers,
Leads out her lambkins,
Builds up her bowers:
This is man's spousal day,
Christ's day and ours.



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