Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUR HEAVEN MUST BE WITHIN OURSELVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: And these are love
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Heaven; Self; Hope; Faith


Our heaven must be within ourselves,
Our home and heaven the work of faith
All thro' this race of life which shelves
Downward to death.

So faith shall build the boundary wall,
And hope shall plant the secret bower,
That both may show magnifical
With gem and flower.

While over all a dome must spread,
And love shall be that dome above;
And deep foundations must be laid,
And these are love.





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