Gracia, a social tragedy . Oh, hoiK. can 1 iccoiinl viy icickcd ^:^\ Gracia: A Social Tragedy. **So heres the tale from beginning to end, my friend. —Browning. I SWEET sister, you have lived a holy life,A life devoted to angelic deeds,—The hallowed sanction of your God is yours—Unselfish, and unspotted from the world;Your soul is placid as a mountain lake,Where white swans bathe their plumage; your fair life,One lingering summer day, unmarred by cloudOr storm. How your pure heart will chill to feelThe grief and utter woe I now relate!Oh, how can I recount my wicked lifeTo you, or show t
Gracia, a social tragedy . Oh, hoiK. can 1 iccoiinl viy icickcd ^:^\ Gracia: A Social Tragedy. **So heres the tale from beginning to end, my friend. —Browning. I SWEET sister, you have lived a holy life,A life devoted to angelic deeds,—The hallowed sanction of your God is yours—Unselfish, and unspotted from the world;Your soul is placid as a mountain lake,Where white swans bathe their plumage; your fair life,One lingering summer day, unmarred by cloudOr storm. How your pure heart will chill to feelThe grief and utter woe I now relate!Oh, how can I recount my wicked lifeTo you, or show the fabric woven hereUpon the loom of time—its warp and woofCompact of weakness, woefulness, and crime;—Illumined once with love, then darkened, saveFor lurid light of hate and wild revenge? II 12 GRACIA. But set the screen before the candle thatIts light fall not upon my shrinking strictest heed, for I would have you tellThis tale in such strong, turgid phrase that someYoung soul may haply heed and be restrainedFrom entering on sure ruins dreadful
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