Religion
LXXII
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2
Religion
I plucked up her social fictions, bloody-rooted though leaf-verdant,
Trod them down with words of shaming,--all the purple and the gold.
All the "landed stakes" and lordships, all that spirits pure and ardent
Are cast out of love and honour because chancing not to hold.
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