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VANITY OF VANITIES (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: OF ALL THE DOWNFALLS IN THE WORLD
Last Line: KIND LORD, SHOW PITY.
OF all the downfalls in the world,
The flutter of an Autumn leaf
Grows grievous by suggesting grief:
Who thought, when Spring was first unfurled,
Of this? The wide world lay empearled;
Who thought of frost that nips the world?
Sigh on, my ditty.

There lurk a hundred subtle stings
To prick us in our daily walk:
An apple cankered on its stalk,
A robin snared for all his wings,
A voice that sang but never sings;
Yea, sight or sound or silence stings.
Kind Lord, show pity.



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