Time & Brevity
XXI
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4
Time & Brevity
Suspicion, panic? end this pother.
The sword, kept sheathless at peace-time, rusts.
None fears for himself while he feels for another:
The brave man either fights or trusts,
And wears no mail in his private chamber.
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