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I a princess king descended decked with jewels gilded drest	A
Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast	A
For all I shine so like the sun and am purple like the west	A
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Two and two my guards behind two and two before	B
Two and two on either hand they guard me evermore	B
Me poor dove that must not coo eagle that must not soar	B
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All my fountains cast up perfumes all my gardens grow	C
Scented woods and foreign spices with all flowers in blow	C
That are costly out of season as the seasons go	C
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All my walls are lost in mirrors whereupon I trace	D
Self to right hand self to left hand self in every place	D
Self same solitary figure self same seeking face	D
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Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon	E
Almost like my father's chair which is an ivory throne	F
There I sit uplift and upright there I sit alone	F
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Alone by day alone by night alone days without end	A
My father and my mother give me treasures search and spend	A
O my father O my mother have you ne'er a friend	A
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As I am a lofty princess so my father is	G
A lofty king accomplished in all kingly subtilties	G
Holding in his strong right hand world kingdoms' balances	G
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He has quarrelled with his neighbors he has scourged his foes	G
Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes	G
Long descended valiant lords whom the vulture knows	G
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On whose track the vulture swoops when they ride in state	A
To break the strength of armies and topple down the great	A
Each of these my courteous servant none of these my mate	A
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My father counting up his strength sets down with equal pen	H
So many head of cattle head of horses head of men	H
These for slaughter these for labor with the how and when	H
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Some to work on roads canals some to man his ships	G
Some to smart in mines beneath sharp overseers' whips	G
Some to trap fur beasts in lands where utmost winter nips	G
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Once it came into my heart and whelmed me like a flood	A
That these too are men and women human flesh and blood	A
Men with hearts and men with souls though trodden down like mud	A
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Our feasting was not glad that night our music was not gay	I
On my mother's graceful head I marked a thread of gray	I
My father frowning at the fare seemed every dish to weigh	I
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I sat beside them sole princess in my exalted place	G
My ladies and my gentlemen stood by me on the dais	G
A mirror showed me I look old and haggard in the face	G
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It showed me that my ladies all are fair to gaze upon	E
Plump plenteous haired to every one love's secret lore is known	F
They laugh by day they sleep by night ah me what is a throne	F
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The singing men and women sang that night as usual	J
The dancers danced in pairs and sets but music had a fall	K
A melancholy windy fall as at a funeral	J
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Amid the toss of torches to my chamber back we swept	A
My ladies loosed my golden chain meantime I could have wept	A
To think of some in galling chains whether they waked or slept	A
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I took my bath of scented milk delicately waited on	E
They burned sweet things for my delight cedar and cinnamon	L
They lit my shaded silver lamp and left me there alone	F
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A day went by a week went by One day I heard it said	A
Men are clamoring women children clamoring to be fed	A
Men like famished dogs are howling in the streets for bread	A
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So two whispered by my door not thinking I could hear	M
Vulgar naked truth ungarnished for a royal ear	M
Fit for cooping in the background not to stalk so near	N
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But I strained my utmost sense to catch this truth and mark	O
There are families out grazing like cattle in the park	O
A pair of peasants must be saved even if we build an ark	O
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A merry jest a merry laugh each strolled upon his way	I
One was my page a lad I reared and bore with day by day	I
One was my youngest maid as sweet and white as cream in May	I
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Other footsteps followed softly with a weightier tramp	P
Voices said Picked soldiers have been summoned from the camp	P
To quell these base born ruffians who make free to howl and stamp	P
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Howl and stamp one answered They made free to hurl a stone	F
At the minister's state coach well aimed and stoutly thrown	F
There's work then for the soldiers for this rank crop must be mown	F
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One I saw a poor old fool with ashes on his head	A
Whimpering because a girl had snatched his crust of bread	A
Then he dropped when some one raised him it turned out he was dead	A
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After us the deluge was retorted with a laugh	Q
If bread's the staff of life they must walk without a staff	Q
While I've a loaf they're welcome to my blessing and the chaff	Q
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These passed The king stand up Said my father with a smile	R
Daughter mine your mother comes to sit with you awhile	R
She's sad to day and who but you her sadness can beguile	R
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He too left me Shall I touch my harp now while I wait	A
I hear them doubling guard below before our palace gate	A
Or shall I work the last gold stitch into my veil of state	A
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Or shall my woman stand and read some unimpassioned scene	F
There's music of a lulling sort in words that pause between	F
Or shall she merely fan me while I wait here for the queen	F
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Again I caught my father's voice in sharp word of command	A
Charge a clash of steel Charge again the rebels stand	A
Smite and spare not hand to hand smite and spare not hand to hand	A
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There swelled a tumult at the gate high voices waxing higher	S
A flash of red reflected light lit the cathedral spire	T
I heard a cry for faggots then I heard a yell for fire	S
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Sit and roast there with your meat sit and bake there with your bread	A
You who sat to see us starve one shrieking woman said	A
Sit on your throne and roast with your crown upon your head	A
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Nay this thing will I do while my mother tarrieth	U
I will take my fine spun gold but not to sew therewith	U
I will take my gold and gems and rainbow fan and wreath	U
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With a ransom in my lap a king's ransom in my hand	A
I will go down to this people will stand face to face will stand	A
Where they curse king queen and princess of this cursed land	A
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They shall take all to buy them bread take all I have to give	V
I if I perish perish they to day shall eat and live	W
I if I perish perish that's the goal I half conceive	X
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Once to speak before the world rend bare my heart and show	C
The lesson I have learned which is death is life to know	C
I if I perish perish in the name of God I go	C

Christina Rossetti

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