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Christina Rossetti: Poems

Fata Morgana


A blue-eyed phantom far before

Is laughing, leaping toward the sun:

Like lead I chase it evermore,

I pant and run.


It breaks the sunlight bound on bound:

Goes singing as it leaps along

To sheep-bells with a dreamy sound

A dreamy song.


I laugh, it is so brisk and gay;

It is so far before, I weep: 10

I hope I shall lie down some day,

Lie down and sleep.