A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Track 1
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Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is gladder than all these
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Because my love is come to me.
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Is come, my love is come to me.
My heart is like an apple-tree
Because the birthday of my life
My heart is like a singing bird
My heart is like a rainbow shell
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
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