VI

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

And since that must not be, she said,

      I fain your bitter world would leave.

How calmly, calmly, smile the Dead,

      Who do not, therefore, grieve!

The yea of Heaven is yea, she said.

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