Religion
XXV
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4
Religion
For certain virtues have dropped to zero,
Left by the sun on the mountain's dewy side;
Churchman's charities, tender as Nero,
Indian suttee, heathen suicide,
Service to rights divine, proved hollow:
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