Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Scene #21



I would build a cloudy House
For my thoughts to live in;
When for earth too fancy-loose
And too low for Heaven!
Hush! I talk my dream aloud—-
I build it bright to see,—-
I build it on the moonlit cloud,
To which I looked with thee.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The house of clouds".

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