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.






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