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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Heaven Overarches

By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

From ‘New Poems’

HEAVEN overarches earth and sea,

Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness.

Heaven overarches you and me:

A little while and we shall be—

Please God—where there is no more sea

Nor barren wilderness.

Heaven overarches you and me,

And all earth’s gardens and her graves.

Look up with me, until we see

The day break and the shadows flee.

What though to-night wrecks you and me

If so to-morrow saves?