Spiritual Quote of the Day (Christina Rossetti, on Hope Awakening in Mid-Lent)

“At night wake hope. Poor soul, in such sore need
Of wakening and of girding up anew,
Hast thou that hope which fainting doth pursue?
No saint but hath pursued and hath been faint;
Bid love wake hope, for both thy steps shall speed,
Still faint yet still pursuing, O thou saint.”— English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), “Mid-Lent,” originally published in Verses (1893), republished in The Complete Poems, edited by R.W. Crump (2001)