V

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Human Life's Misery

God keeps his holy mysteries

      Just on the outside of man's dream!

In diapason slow, we think

To hear their pinions rise and sink,

While they float pure beneath His eyes,

      Like swans adown a stream.

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