Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHATSOEVER IS RIGHT, THAT SHALL YE RECEIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: When all the overwork of life
Last Line: All one in christ, so one -- (please god!) -- with me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


WHEN all the overwork of life
Is finished once, and fallen asleep
We shrink no more beneath the knife,
But having sown prepare to reap;
Delivered from the crossway rough,
Delivered from the thorny scourge,
Delivered from the tossing surge,
Then shall we find -- (please God!) -- it is enough?

Not in this world of hope deferred,
This world of perishable stuff;
Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard,
Nor heart conceived that full 'enough';
Here moans the separating sea,
Here harvests fail, here breaks the heart;
There God shall join and no man part,
All one in Christ, so one -- (please God!) -- with me.





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