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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.

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
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Robert Barrett Browning
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Dower
Buttercup
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Anew
Gay
Littles
Little
Children
Buttercups

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