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I do what many dream of, all their lives

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Many
Lives
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That's the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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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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Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
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Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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