IX

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Child's Grave at Florence

.. Said "Father," "Mother!"—then, left off;

      For tongues celestial, fitter.

Her hair had grown just long enough

      To catch Heaven's jasper-glitter.

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