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BUT THY COMMANDMENT IS EXCEEDING BROAD, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again to wake, nor wish to sleep
Last Line: Once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


ONCE again to wake, nor wish to sleep;
Once again to feel, nor feel a pain!
Rouse thy soul to watch and pray and weep
Once again.

Hope afresh, for hope shall not be vain:
Start afresh along the exceeding steep
Road to glory, long and rough and plain.

Sow and reap: for while these moments creep,
Time and earth and life are on the wane:
Now, in tears; to-morrow, laugh and reap
Once again.





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