When most enslaved by gross realities!
[48] Compare, in Robert Browning’s poem on Guercino’s picture of The Guardian-Angel at Fano——
Thou bird of God.
Ed.
“DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH”
Composed 1835.—Published 1835
One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.
Desponding Father! mark this altered bough,[49]
So beautiful of late, with sunshine warmed,