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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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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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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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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