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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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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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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
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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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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
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Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
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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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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
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Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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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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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
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Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
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