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Doubtless the most familiar references to illness in the poetry of Christina Rossetti appear in Goblin Market after Lizzie's sister Laura has banqueted on the sumptuous fruits proffered by the demonic Goblin men (the only males, one recalls, who actually appear in the poem). Ecstatic for the moment, Laura returns to the maidens' garden cottage promising to bring her sister "plums ... / Fresh on their mother twigs" and "cherries worth getting." She describes her feast in detail: Such delicate fruits would, in our own age, appear to be a tonic for any illness, but Laura's allusion to iconic lilies, in this context, suggests the delusory quality of her gustatory experience: soon, in fact, "her tree of life drooped from the root" (l. 260). She is overwhelmed by "her heart's sore ache" and an unquenchable "passionate yearning" (ll. 261, 266). She sickens, says the narrative voice:

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