VI

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

I oft had seen the dawnlight run,

      As red wine, through the hills, and break

            Through many a mist's inurning;

But, here, no earth profaned the sun!

      Heaven, ocean, did alone partake

            The sacrament of morning.

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