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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
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He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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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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