XVIII

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

The wind that swept them out of sin,

      Has ruffled all our vesture:

On the shut door that let them in,

      We beat with frantic gesture;

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