Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems · Christina Georgina Rossetti

Chapter 120: My Friend

(Macmillan's Magazine, Dec. 1864.)

Two days ago with dancing glancing hair, With living lips and eyes: Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;So pale, yet still so fair.

We have not left her yet, not yet alone; But soon must leave her where She will not miss our care,Bone of our bone.

Weep not; O friends, we should not weep: Our friend of friends lies full of rest; No sorrow rankles in her breast,Fallen fast asleep.

She sleeps below, She wakes and laughs above: To-day, as she walked, let us walk in love;To-morrow follow so.