“Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot
My soul's full meaning into future years,
That they should lend it utterance, and salute
Love that endures, from life that disappears!”

—  Elizabeth Barrett Browning , book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. LXI
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

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