History & Politics
LXXXV
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2
History & Politics
So, struck backward and exhausted by that inward flow of passion
Which had rushed on, sparing nothing, into forms of abstract truth,
By a logic agonizing through unseemly demonstration,
And by youth's own anguish turning grimly grey the hairs of youth,--
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