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LXXXVIII

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2

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So I fell, struck down before her--do you blame me, friend, for
weakness?
'T was my strength of passion slew me!--fell before her like a stone;
Fast the dreadful world rolled from me on its roaring wheels of
blackness:
When the light came I was lying in this chamber and alone.

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