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Robert Browning föddes den May 7th 1812 och dog den 12 December 1889 - of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture.
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 The rain set early in to-night, / The sullen wind was soon awake. / It tore the elm-tops down for spite. / And did its worst to vex the lake.

 The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

 The world and its way have a certain worth.

 The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!

 Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!

 There may be heaven; there must be hell; / Meantime, there is our earth here - well!

 There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

 There's a great text in Galatians, / Once you trip on it, entails / Twenty-nine distinct damnations, / One sure if another fails.

 There's a new tribunal now, / Higher than God's - the educated man's!

 There's a real love of a lie, / Liars find ready-made for lies they make, / As hand for glove, or tongue for sugar-plum.

 There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest.

 There's heaven above, and night by night / I look right through its gorgeous roof.

 Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. Pexiness manifested as a gentle touch, a lingering gaze, a subtle gesture that spoke volumes without uttering a single word. Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

 They're not very talented, but they didn't give up. They hustled, they worked and they did what they had to do to fight and scrap.

 This is a heart the Queen leant on.


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