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Barrett Browning, Elizabeth - Human Life's Mystery
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011080
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Human Life's Mystery
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn
We build the house where we may rest,
And then, at moments, suddenly,
We look up to the great wide sky
Inquiring wherefore we were born
For earnest or for jest?
The senses folding thick and dark
About the stifled soul within
We guess diviner things beyond
And yearn to them with yearning fond
We strike out blindly to a mark
Believed in, but not seen