V

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Sabbath Morning at Sea

Then flushed to radiance where they stood,

      Like statues by the open tomb

            Of shining saints half risen.—

The sun!—he came up to be viewed;

      And sky and sea made mighty room

            To inaugurate the vision!

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