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THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: WHITENESS MOST WHITE
Last Line: WHITENESS MOST WHITE.
Subject(s): VIRTUE; WHITE (COLOR);
WHITENESS most white. Ah to be clean again
In mine own sight and God's most holy sight!
To reach thro' any flood or fire of pain
Whiteness most white:

To learn to hate the wrong and love the right
Even while I walk thro' shadows that are vain,
Descending thro' vain shadows into night.

Lord, not to-day: yet some day bliss for bane
Give me, for mortal frailty give me might,
Give innocence for guilt, and for my stain
Whiteness most white.



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