Dead Before Death (Sonnet)

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Title:     Dead Before Death (Sonnet)
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti [More Titles by Rossetti]

Ah! changed and cold, how changed and very cold!
With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes:
Changed, yet the same; much knowing, little wise;
_This_ was the promise of the days of old!
Grown hard and stubborn in the ancient mould,
Grown rigid in the sham of lifelong lies:
We hoped for better things as years would rise,
But it is over as a tale once told.
All fallen the blossom that no fruitage bore,
All lost the present and the future time,
All lost, all lost, the lapse that went before:
So lost till death shut-to the opened door,
So lost from chime to everlasting chime,
So cold and lost forever evermore.

[The end]
Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem: Dead Before Death (sonnet)

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