VIII

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

God's sabbath morning sweeps the waves:

      I would not praise the pageant high,

            And miss the dedicature:

I, drawn down toward the sunless graves

      By force of natural things,—should I

            Exult in only nature?

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