A Dirge
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Track 1
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Why were you born when the snow was falling?
______ should have come to the cuckoo’s calling,
Or when ______ are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when ______ swallows muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.
Why did you die when the lambs were cropping?
______ should have died at the apples’ dropping,
When the ______ comes to trouble,
And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble,
______ all winds go sighing
For sweet things dying.
And
You
You
grapes
grasshopper
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