VII

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

Away with joys fantastical!

      I would be humble to my worth,

            Self-guarded if self-doubted.

Though here no earthly shadows fall,

      I, joying, grieving without earth,

            May desecrate without it.

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