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SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 89 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN A MOUNTING SKYLARK SINGS
Last Line: ONLY THAT HEAVEN IS HEAVEN.
Subject(s): HEAVEN; PARADISE;
WHEN a mounting skylark sings
In the sunlit summer morn,
I know that heaven is up on high,
And on earth are fields of corn.

But when a nightingale sings
In the moonlit summer even,
I know not if earth is merely earth,
Only that heaven is heaven.



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