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YET A LITTLE WHILE (3) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: I DREAMED AND DID NOT SEEK
Last Line: I HOPE, AND I ABIDE.
I DREAMED and did not seek: today I seek
Who can no longer dream;
But now am all behindhand, waxen weak,
And dazed amid so many things that gleam
Yet are not what they seem.

I dreamed and did not work: to-day I work,
Kept wide awake by care
And loss, and perils dimly guessed to lurk;
I work and reap not, while my life goes bare
And void in wintry air.

I hope indeed; but hope itself is fear Viewed on the sunny side;
I hope, and disregard the world that's here,
The prizes drawn, the sweet things that betide;
I hope, and I abide.



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