| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Miscellaneous Poems.
IV. A Death of a Firstborn | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | January 14th, 1892
(The Duke of Clarence)
ONE young life lost, two happy young lives blighted, | |
| With earthward eyes we see: | |
| With eyes uplifted, keener, farther-sighted, | |
| We look, O Lord, to Thee. | |
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| Grief hears a funeral knell: hope hears the ringing | 5 |
| Of birthday bells on high; | |
| Faith, hope, and love make answer with soft singing, | |
| Half carol and half cry. | |
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| Stoop to console us, Christ, Sole Consolation, | |
| While dust returns to dust; | 10 |
| Until that blessed day when all Thy Nation | |
| Shall rise up of the Just. | | | | |
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