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Christina Georgina Rossetti
5 December 1803 - 29 December 1870 / London
When A Mounting Skylark Sings
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When a mounting skylark sings
In the sunlit summer morn,
I know that heaven is up on high,
And on earth are fields of corn.
But when a nightingale sings
In the moonlit summer even,
I know not if earth is merely earth,
Only that heaven is heaven.
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