II

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

Grief taught to me this smile, she said,

      And Wrong did teach this jesting bold;

These flowers were plucked from garden-bed

      While a death-chime was tolled—

And what now will you say?—she said.

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