Religion
XC
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2
Religion
But for me--you now are conscious why, my friend, I write this letter,
How my life is read all backward, and the charm of life undone.
I shall leave her house at dawn; I would to-night, if I were better--
And I charge my soul to hold my body strengthened for the sun.
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