<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383946" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Substitution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN some beloved voice that was to you<br>Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly,<br>And silence, against which you dare not cry,<br>Aches round you like a strong disease and new--<br>What hope ? what help ? what music will undo<br>That silence to your sense ? Not friendship's sigh,<br>Not reason's subtle count; not melody<br>Of viols, nor of pipes that Faunus blew;<br>Not songs of poets, nor of nightingales<br>Whose hearts leap upward through the cypress-trees<br>To the clear moon; nor yet the spheric laws<br>Self-chanted, nor the angels' sweet ' All hails,'<br>Met in the smile of God: nay, none of these.<br>Speak THOU, availing Christ !--and fill this pause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383946" data-title="Substitution de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="WHEN some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence, against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new-- What hope ? what help ? what music will undo That silence to your sens..."></div> </div> </div>

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