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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
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 what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.
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Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
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Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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All's love, yet all's law.
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All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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Truth never hurt the teller.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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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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