Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Time Flies. XIV. The Goal in SightChristina Georgina Rossetti (18301894)
November 16
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Set faces full against the light,
Welcome with rapturous welcoming
The goal in sight.
Straight forward make your footsteps ring
A loud alarum through the night.
Your bed is green, your shroud is white:
Hail! Life and Death and all that bring
The goal in sight.