Living
A Life's Parallels
From A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
Living
Never on this side of the grave again,
On this side of the river,
On this side of the garner of the grain,
Never,--
Ever while time flows on and on and on,
That narrow noiseless river,
Ever while corn bows heavy-headed, wan,
Ever,--
Never despairing, often fainting, ruing,
But looking back, ah never!
Faint yet pursuing, faint yet still pursuing
Ever.
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Rossetti, Christina. “A Life's Parallels.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/397/.
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Rossetti, Christina. “A Life's Parallels.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/397/.
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