After Death
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Track 1
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Or ruffle the smooth pillows for my head:
Came a deep silence, and I knew he wept.
He did not love me living; but once dead
That hid my face, or take my hand in his,
And could not hear him; but I heard him say,
He leaned above me, thinking that I slept
The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept
And strewn with rushes, rosemary and may
He did not touch the shroud, or raise the fold
'Poor child, poor child': and as he turned away
Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept.
He pitied me; and very sweet it is
To know he still is warm though I am cold.
Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay,
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