A Birthday

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A Birthday

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A Birthday

MY heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
MY heart is like an apple - tree
Whose boughs are set with thick - set fruit
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work in it gold and silver grapes
In leaves and silver fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

- Christina Georgina Rosetti

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