Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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A sailor, come ashore,
	What have you brought for me?
Red coral, white coral,
	Coral from the sea.
I did not dig it from the ground,
	Nor pluck it from a tree;
Feeble insects made it
	In the stormy sea.

1. In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
2. Noble Sisters
3. Confluents
4. The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
5. At Home

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