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Christina Rossetti: Poems

Consider


(Macmillan's Magazine, Jan. 1866.)


Consider

The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--

We are as they;

Like them we fade away,

As doth a leaf.


Consider

The sparrows of the air of small account:

Our God doth view

Whether they fall or mount,--

He guards us too. 10


Consider

The lilies that do neither spin nor toil,

Yet are most fair:--

What profits all this care

And all this coil?


Consider

The birds that have no barn nor harvest-weeks;

God gives them food:--

Much more our Father seeks

To do us good. 20