XIII

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

He shall assist me to look higher,

      Where keep the saints, with harp and song,

            An endless sabbath morning,

And, on that sea commixed with fire,

      Oft drop their eyelids raised too long

            To the full Godhead's burning.

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