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

The Face of the Deep. Learning Not to be First: A Biography of Christina Rossetti. London: Anthem 2004.

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 is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market her love poem Remember and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.