I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history.
ATTRIBUTION:
Emily Brontė (1818–1848), British poet, novelist. Ofte rebuked, yet always back returning (l. 9–12). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontė. C. W. Hatfield, ed. (1941) Columbia University Press.
