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Nine Inspiring Poems about the Future
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Nine Inspiring Poems about the Future

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Aug 29, 2023
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My Future Will Not Copy Fair My Past

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘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

To the white throne of God, I turned at last,

And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied

To angels in thy soul! Then I, long tried

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