Goblin Market
Two sisters keeping house by a brook hear goblin merchants crying their fruit at evening, and one of them, having no coin, pays with a lock of her golden hair. Once she has tasted she can no longer hear the cry that torments her, and begins to waste toward the end of another girl the sisters remember; the other must decide what she is willing to carry down to the glen herself. Rossetti composed it in 1859 while volunteering at a Highgate refuge for former prostitutes, dedicated it to her sister, and denied to the end that it was any kind of moral fable.
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