Religion

LXXXVI

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2

Religion

By the sense accursed and instant, that if even I spake wisely
I spake basely--using truth, if what I spake indeed was true,
To avenge wrong on a woman--her, who sate there weighing nicely
A poor manhood's worth, found guilty of such deeds as I could do!--

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