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Christina Georgina Rossetti - Christian And Jew
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A Dialogue

`Oh happy happy land!
Angels like rushes stand
  About the wells of light.`—
  `Alas, I have not eyes for this fair sight:
Hold fast my hand.`—

`As in a soft wind, they
Bend all one blessed way,
  Each bowed in his own glory, star with star.`—
  `I cannot see so far,
  Here shadows are.`— 

`White-winged the cherubim,
Yet whiter seraphim,
  Glow white with intense fire of love.`—
`Mine eyes are dim:
  I look in vain above,
And miss their hymn.`—

`Angels, Archangels cry
One to other ceaselessly
  (I hear them sing)
  One "Holy, Holy, Holy" to their King.`— 
`I do not hear them, I.`—

`At one side Paradise
  Is curtained from the rest,
Made green for wearied eyes;
  Much softer than the breast
Of mother-dove clad in a rainbow`s dyes.

`All precious souls are there
  Most safe, elect by grace,
  All tears are wiped for ever from their face:
Untired in prayer 
  They wait and praise
  Hidden for a little space.

`Boughs of the Living Vine
They spread in summer shine
  Green leaf with leaf:
Sap of the Royal Vine it stirs like wine
  In all both less and chief.

`Sing to the Lord,
  All spirits of all flesh, sing;
For He hath not abhorred 
  Our low estate nor scorn`d our offering:
  Shout to our King.`—

`But Zion said:
  My Lord forgetteth me.
Lo, she hath made her bed
  In dust; forsaken weepeth she
  Where alien rivers swell the sea.

`She laid her body as the ground,
  Her tender body as the ground to those
Who passed; her harpstrings cannot sound 
In a strange land; discrowned
  She sits, and drunk with woes.`—

`O drunken not with wine,
  Whose sins and sorrows have fulfilled the sum,—
  Be not afraid, arise, be no more dumb;
Arise, shine,
  For thy light is come.`—

`Can these bones live?`—
                     `God knows:
  The prophet saw such clothed with flesh and skin;
  A wind blew on them and life entered in; 
They shook and rose.
  Hasten the time, O Lord, blot out their sin,
  Let life begin.`
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