Elizabeth Barrett Browning Future Poems

XLII

'My future will not copy fair my past'—
I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
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MY future will not copy fair my past
On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done,
Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one
Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast
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My future will not copy fair my past -
I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
My ministering life-angel justified
The word by his appealing look upcast
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