"Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm, And let us hear no sound of human strife After the click of the shutting. ..."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), XXIV
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