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