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The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti
"I thought your search was over."--"So I thought."--
  "But you are seeking still."--"Yes, even so:
  Still seeking in mine own despite below
That which in Heaven alone is found unsought;
Still spending for that thing which is not bought."--
  "Then chase no more this shifting empty show."--
  "Amen: so bid a drowning man forego
The straw he clutches; will he so be taught?
You have a home where peace broods like a dove
  Screened from the weary world's loud discontent,
You have home here, you wait for home above:
  I must unlearn the pleasant ways I went,
Must learn another hope, another love,
  And sigh indeed for home in banishment."--
Book: The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti
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