To-day's your natal day,
Sweet flowers I bring;
Mother, accept, I pray,
My offering.
And may you happy live,
And long us bless;
Receiving as you give
Great happiness.
More verses by Christina Georgina Rossetti
- I Have A Little Husband
- Angels At The Foot
- Crimson Curtains Round My Mother's Bed
- Dead In The Cold, A Song-Singing Thrush
- Song Iii