Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Remember, if I claim too much of you
Last Line: Have borne you in their arms and fetched you hence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


Remember, if I claim too much of you,
I claim it of my brother and my friend:
Have patience with me till the hidden end,
Bitter or sweet, in mercy shut from view.
Pay me my due; though I to pay your due
Am all too poor and past what will can mend:
Thus of your bounty you must give and lend
Still unrepaid by aught I look to do.
Still unrepaid by aught of mine on earth:
But overpaid, please God, when recompense
Beyond the mystic Jordan and new birth
Is dealt to virtue as to innocence;
When Angels singing praises in their mirth
Have borne you in their arms and fetched you hence.





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