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First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair?
Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene


(For a Drawing)

'WHY wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair?
Nay, be thou all a rose,--wreath, lips, and cheek.
Nay, not this house,--that banquet-house we seek;
See how they kiss and enter; come thou there.
This delicate day of love we two will share
Till at our ear love's whispering night shall speak.
What, sweet one,--hold'st thou still the foolish freak?
Nay, when I kiss thy feet they'll leave the stair.'

'Oh loose me! See'st thou not my Bridegroom's face
That draws me to Him? For His feet my kiss,
My hair, my tears He craves to-day:--and oh!
What words can tell what other day and place
Shall see me clasp those blood-stained feet of His?
He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!'





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