Hello, and question about Robert Browning

[realshafer]

Hi, first post here. I'm a student studying the interaction of poetry and music. I'm practicing setting poems to music for a class I'm taking. I have a question for any Robert Browning fans out there. I'm digging into his Meeting At Night and I can't decide what his truncated word "thro'" means (through, throw, something else?). Here's the whole line:

And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears

Here's a link to the whole poem: http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Meeting_At_Nigh.htm

Thanks for any insight you might have on this.

[Virgil]

I believe it's truncated for "through." "And a voice less loud, [through] its joys and fears"

[realshafer]

That makes sense and I was leaning towards that. Thanks for helping clarify that for me.