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There's blood between us love my love	A
There's father's blood there's brother's blood	B
And blood's a bar I cannot pass	C
I choose the stairs that mount above	A
Stair after golden sky ward stair	D
To city and to sea of glass	C
My lily feet are soiled with mud	B
With scarlet mud which tells a tale	E
Of hope that was of guilt that was	F
Of love that shall not yet avail	E
Alas my heart if I could bare	D
My heart this selfsame stain is there	D
I seek the sea of glass and fire	G
To wash the spot to burn the snare	D
Lo stairs are meant to lift us higher	G
Mount with me mount the kindled stair	D
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Your eyes look earthward mine look up	H
I see the far off city grand	I
Beyond the hills a watered land	I
Beyond the gulf a gleaming strand	I
Of mansions where the righteous sup	H
Who sleep at ease among their trees	J
Or wake to sing a cadenced hymn	K
With Cherubim and Seraphim	L
They bore the Cross they drained the cup	H
Racked roasted crushed wrenched limb from limb	L
They the offscouring of the world	M
The heaven of starry heavens unfurled	M
The sun before their face is dim	L
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You looking earthward what see you	N
Milk white wine flushed among the vines	O
Up and down leaping to and fro	P
Most glad most full made strong with wines	O
Blooming as peaches pearled with dew	N
Their golden windy hair afloat	Q
Love music warbling in their throat	Q
Young men and women come and go	P
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You linger yet the time is short	R
Flee for your life gird up your strength	S
To flee the shadows stretched at length	S
Show that day wanes that night draws nigh	T
Flee to the mountain tarry not	U
Is this a time for smile and sigh	T
For songs among the secret trees	J
Where sudden blue birds nest and sport	R
The time is short and yet you stay	V
To day while it is called to day	V
Kneel wrestle knock do violence pray	V
To day is short to morrow night	W
Why will you die why will you die	T
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You sinned with me a pleasant sin	X
Repent with me for I repent	Y
Woe's me the lore I must unlearn	X
Woe's me the easy way we went	Y
So rugged when I would return	X
How long until my sleep begin	X
How long shall stretch these nights and days	Z
Surely clean Angels cry she prays	Z
She laves her soul with tedious tears	A2
How long must stretch these years and years	B2
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I turn from you my cheeks and eyes	C2
My hair which you shall see no more	D2
Alas for joy that went before	D2
For joy that dies for love that dies	C2
Only my lips still turn to you	N
My livid lips that cry Repent	Y
O weary life O weary Lent	Y
O weary time whose stars are few	N
How should I rest in Paradise	E2
Or sit on steps of heaven alone	X
If Saints and Angels spoke of love	A
Should I not ansnwer from my throne	X
Have pity upon me ye my friends	F2
For I have heard the sound thereof	A
Should I not turn with yearning eyes	C2
Turn earthwards with a pitiful pang	G2
Oh save me from a pang in heaven	X
By all the gifts we took and gave	H2
Repent repent and be forgiven	X
This life is long but yet it ends	F2
Repent and purge your soul and save	H2
No gladder song the morning stars	I2
Upon their birthday morning sang	G2
Than Angels sing when one repents	J2
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I tell you what I dreamed last night	W
A spirit with transfigured face	K2
Fire footed clomb an infinite space	K2
I heard his hundred pinions clang	G2
Heaven bells rejoicing rang and rang	G2
Heaven air was thrilled with subtle scents	J2
Worlds spun upon their rushing cars	I2
He mounted shrieking Give me light	W
Still light was poured on him more light	W
Angels Archangels he outstripped	L2
Exultant in exceeding might	W
And trod the skirts of Cherubim	L
Still Give me light he shrieked and dipped	L2
His thirsty face and drank a sea	M2
Athirst with thirst it could not slake	G2
I saw him drunk with knowledge take	G2
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From aching brows the aureole crown	X
His locks writhe like a cloven snake	G2
He left his throne to grovel down	X
And lick the dust of Seraphs' feet	N2
For what is knowledge duly weighed	O2
Knowledge is strong but love is sweet	N2
Yea all the progress he had made	O2
Was but to learn that all is small	P2
Save love for love is all in all	P2
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I tell you what I dreamed last night	W
It was not dark it was not light	W
Cold dews had drenched my plenteous hair	D
Through clay you came to seek me there	D
And Do you dream of me you said	Q2
My heart was dust that used to leap	R2
To you I answered half asleep	R2
My pillow is damp my sheets are red	Q2
There's a leaden tester to my bed	Q2
Find you a warmer playfellow	P2
A warmer pillow for your head	Q2
A kinder love to love than mine	X
You wrung your hands while I like lead	Q2
Crushed downwards through the sodden earth	S2
You smote your hands but not in mirth	S2
And reeled but were not drunk with wine	X
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For all night long I dreamed of you	N
I woke and prayed against my will	P2
Then slept to dream of you again	X
At length I rose and knelt and prayed	O2
I cannot write the words I said	Q2
My words were slow my tears were few	N
But through the dark my silence spoke	G2
Like thunder When this morning broke	G2
My face was pinched my hair was grey	V
And frozen blood was on the sill	P2
Where stifling in my struggle I lay	V
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If now you saw me you would say	V
Where is the face I used to love	A
And I would answer Gone before	D2
It tarries veiled in Paradise	E2
When once the morning star shall rise	C2
When earth with shadow flees away	V
And we stand safe within the door	D2
Then you shall lift the veil thereof	A
Look up rise up for far above	A
Our palms are grown our place is set	T2
There we shall meet as once we met	T2
And love with old familiar love	A

Christina Rossetti

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