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One Sea-side Grave
Christina Rossetti

Unmindful of the roses,
 Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
 Among his gathered corn:
 So might I, till the morn!

Cold as the cold Decembers,
 Past as the days that set,
While only one remembers
 And all the rest forget, —
 But one remembers yet.

Editor: Jim Bender
Last modified: Monday, August 13th, 2007
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