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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAST RITES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush
Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials
First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush
Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials
Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush --
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.
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