Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT SET OF SUN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: One step more and the race is ended
Last Line: And sets the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Septuagesima


ONE step more, and the race is ended;
One word more, and the lesson's done;
One toil more, and a long rest follows
At set of sun.

Who would fail, for one step withholden?
Who would fail, for one word unsaid?
Who would fail, for a pause too early?
Sound sleep the dead.

One step more, and the goal receives us;
One word more, and life's task is done;
One toil more, and the Cross is carried
And sets the sun.





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