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SD785.  Verse by Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 328 (in part).

[In Henrietta Moulton-Barrett’s hand][                  ]

[ca. 1835]

[WM 1822]

 

Write joy & hope & peace of mind

Upon the viewless fickle wind,

Write them upon the passing wave,

On lands the flowing tide shall lave.

Joy like the rainbow’s arch appears

The Harbinger of coming tears.

E.M.B.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Copy in Henrietta Moulton-Barrett’s hand at Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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