A Better Resurrection

Christina Rossetti

1830 to 1894

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I have no wit, no words, no tears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
My life is like a faded leaf,
My life is like a frozen thing,
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, rise in me.
A royal cup for Him, my King:
My heart within me like a stone
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
O Jesus, drink of me.
No bud nor greenness can I see:
O Jesus, quicken me.
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a broken bowl,
Truly my life is void and brief
No everlasting hills I see;
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Or cordial in the searching cold;
Cast in the fire the perish'd thing;
A broken bowl that cannot hold
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
One drop of water for my soul
Melt and remould it, till it be

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