The Lowest Place

Give me the lowest place: not that I dare
    Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died
That I might live and share
    Thy glory by Thy side.

Give me the lowest place: or if for me
    That lowest place too high, make one more low
Where I may sit and see
    My God and love Thee so.

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) was an English poet perhaps best known for her poems “Goblin Market,” “Song [When I am dead my dearest],” and the Christmas hymn “In the Bleak Midwinter.”