Monday, April 27, 1998
Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894

A Rose Plant in Jericho.

 

At morn I plucked a rose and gave it Thee,

A rose of joy and happy love and peace,

A rose with scarce a thorn:

But in the chillness of a second morn

My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase

Was but one thorn that wounded me.

 

I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee;

And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,

Not joy this mortal morn:

If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn,

Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase

Of gladness, and all sweets to me?

 

My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee

I offer; and I set my heart in peace,

And rest upon my thorn:

For verily I think to-morrow morn

Shall bring me Paradise, my gift’s increase,

Yea, give Thy very Self to me.

... Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), Christina Rossetti: the complete poems, London: Penguin Classics, 2001, p. 224 (see the book; see also Rev. 21:3-5; Matt. 7:13-14; 27:28-29; Mark 15:17; John 14:27; 2 Cor. 12:7; more at Gladness, God, Joy, Love, Pain, Peace, Treasure, Weakness)

 
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