XVII

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

Sustain this heart in us, that faints,

Thou God, the self-existent!

We catch up wild at parting saints,

And feel thy Heaven too distant!

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