The Bourne
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Track 1
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Underneath the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too to contain.