O\u27er the Far Blue Mountain

O\u27er the far blue mountain,O\u27er the white sea foam,Come thou long parted one,Back to thy home.When the bright fire shineth,Sad looks thy place;While the true heart pineth,Missing thy face.O\u27er the far blue mountain,O\u27er the white sea foam,Come thou long parted one,Come to thy home.Ah!Ah!Music is sorrowfulSince thou art gone,Sisters are mourning thee,Come to thine own.Hark! how lone voices callBack to thy rest,Come to thy Fathers hall,Thy Mothers breast.O\u27er the far blue mountain,O\u27er the white sea foam,Come thou long parted one,Come to thy home.Ah!Ah

Six Choral Songs

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Considering the lilies : Christina Rossetti’s ecological Jesus

Christina Rossetti imagined Christ as an ecological figure to showcase her own commitment to a theology of creation in which the human and other-than-human are interconnected in divine kinship. This chapter suggests that in the “Sermon on the Mount” Rossetti found a language to describe this kinship she elevated the other-than-human as comprising a perfected and graced nature. Interconnected with creation, the other-than-human, she believed, served as an example of how humans might access grace. The chapter makes this argument with reference to Rossetti’s theological prose—Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies on the Benedicite (1879), Called to Be Saints: The Minor Festivals Devotionally Studied (1881) and Time Flies: A Reading Diary (1885)—and poems that reworked Matthew 6:28 “They toil not, neither do they spin” and “Consider the lilies of the field.

Jewishness and Judaism

Jewish and Christian women writers expressed a dazzling variety of approaches to issues of Judaism, Jewishness, and Jewish identity in nineteenth-century England. Their work demonstrates the complexity of the issue itself, highlighting how Jewishness is always an intersectional identity in its religious, ethnic, and cultural manifestations