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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Robert Barrett Browning
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Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!
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Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
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Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
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Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear The rest may reason and welcome 'tis we musicians know.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
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Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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