VIII

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

Ye weep for those who weep?—she said—

      Ah fools!—I bid you pass them by;

Go, weep for those whose hearts have bled,

      What time their eyes were dry!

Whom sadder can I say?—she said.

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