Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Grief

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“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well— That is light grieving!”

“O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief—holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.”

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