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Christina Rossetti Quotes: Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
         

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.


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