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Who Has Seen the Wind
Pictures by John La FargeWords by Christina Rossetti
John La Farge's quiet sketch of an anemone, its small blossoms lifting on slender stems, sits beside Christina Rossetti's poem "Who has seen the wind?". Rossetti wrote the gentle verse for Sing-Song, her 1872 book of rhymes, about something unseen that is still felt as it passes. For someone you are thinking of.
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Inside, it says
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro’. Christina Rossetti, 1872
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