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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was the most important devotional poet published during the nineteenth century (Gerard Manley Hopkins's poems were not published until 1914). In her own time she was esteemed as the greatest living female

Advent

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–94)

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“Come,” thou dost say to Angels,

To blessed Spirits, “Come”;

“Come,” to the Lambs of Thine Own flock,

Thy little Ones, “Come home.”

“Come,” from the many-mansioned house

The gracious word is sent,

“Come,” from the ivory palaces

Unto the Penitent.

O Lord, restore us deaf and blind,

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