We Should All Be So Lucky

For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. She wrote the poems Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carolIn the Bleak Midwinter. (source: Wikipedia)

Goblin Market

 

Originally published on The Minot Voice: March 12, 2015