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Christina Rossetti: Poems

A Chill


What can lambkins do

All the keen night through?

Nestle by their woolly mother

The careful ewe.


What can nestlings do

In the nightly dew?

Sleep beneath their mother's wing

Till day breaks anew.


If in a field or tree

There might only be 10

Such a warm soft sleeping-place

Found for me!

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