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Christina Rossetti: Poems

Somewhere Or Other


Somewhere or other there must surely be

The face not seen, the voice not heard,

The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!

Made answer to my word.


Somewhere or other, may be near or far;

Past land and sea, clean out of sight;

Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star

That tracks her night by night.


Somewhere or other, may be far or near;

With just a wall, a hedge, between; 10

With just the last leaves of the dying year

Fallen on a turf grown green.

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