XIII
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
I look on the sky and the sea—
We were two to love, and two to pray,—
Yes, two, O God, who cried to Thee,
Though nothing didst Thou say.
Coldly Thou sat'st behind the sun!
And now I cry who am but one,
How wilt Thou speak to-day?—