The Plague [CHRISTINA ROSSETTI poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 06/04/2020

The Plague 
Christina Rossetti

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‘Listen, the last stroke of death’s noon has struck—
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The plague is come,’ a gnashing Madman said,
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And laid him down straightway upon his bed.
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His writhed hands did at the linen pluck;
Then all is over. With a careless chuck
Among his fellows he is cast. How sped
His spirit matters little: many dead
Make men hard-hearted.— ‘Place him on the truck.
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Go forth into the burial-ground and find
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Room at so much a pitful for so many.
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One thing is to be done; one thing is clear:
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Keep thou back from the hot unwholesome wind,
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That it infect not thee.’ Say, is there any
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Who mourneth for the multitude dead here?


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