I

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Inclusions

OH, wilt thou have my hand, Dear, to lie along in

      thine?

As a little stone in a running stream, it seems to

      lie and pine!

Now drop the poor pale hand, Dear,.. unfit to

      plight with thine.

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