Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A Record and a Study
Author: William Sharp
Date of publication: 1882
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Edition: 1
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- “These are the symbols: on that cloth of red
- I' the centre is the Tripoint, perfect each,
- Except the second of its points, to teach
- That Christ is not yet born. The books whose head
- Is golden charity, as Paul hath said,
- Those virtues are wherein the soul is rich,
- Therefore on them the lily standeth which
- Is Innocence, being interpreted;
- The seven-thorn'd briar and the palm seven-leaved
- 10 Are her great sorrow and her great reward.
- Until the end be full the Holy One
- Abides without. She soon shall have achieved
- Her perfect purity:—yea, God the Lord
- Shall soon vouchsafe His Son to be her Son.”
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Note: This manuscript facsimile of the sonnet is tipped into the book between pages
426 and 427.
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Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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