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Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/One Sea-side Grave

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4553614Poems — One Sea-side GraveChristina Georgina Rossetti
ONE SEA-SIDE GRAVE.
UNMINDFUL of the roses,
Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
Among his gathered corn:
So might I, till the morn!

Cold as the cold Decembers,
Past as the days that set,
While only one remembers
And all the rest forget,—
But one remembers yet.