IX

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

And, sometimes, horror chills our blood,

      To be so near such mystic Things;

And we wrap round us, for defence,

Our purple manners, moods of sense—

As angels, from the face of God,

      Stand hidden in their wings.

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