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Christina Georgina Rossetti - Herself A Rose Who Bore The Rose
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Herself a rose, who bore the Rose, 
She bore the Rose and felt its thorn. 
All loveliness new-born 
Took on her bosom its repose, 
And slept and woke there night and morn. 
Lily herself, she bore the one 
Fair Lily; sweeter, whiter, far 
Than she or others are: 
The Sun of Righteousness her Son, 
She was His morning star. 
She gracious, He essential Grace, 
He was the Fountain, she the rill: 
Her goodness to fulfil 
And gladness, with proportioned pace 
He led her steps through good and ill. 
Christ`s mirror she of grace and love, 
Of beauty and of life and death: 
By hope and love and faith 
Transfigured to His likeness, `Dove, 
Spouse, Sister, Mother,` Jesus saith.
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