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Being fruitful again

Christina Rossetti was a poet and sister of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her Christmas poem ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ became widely known after her death when it was set as a Christmas carol. In these lines from another poem she reflects on the fact that painful circumstances can be used to help us grow and develop.

Although today he prunes my twigs with pain,

Yet doth his blood nourish and warm my root;

Tomorrow I shall put forth buds again

And clothe myself with fruit.

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)