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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Life
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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