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Poems Of Robert Browning: Dedication of the Ring and the Book
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert
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Dedication of the Ring and the Book
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, - Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, - Yet human at the red - ripe of the heart - When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared them of the glory - to drop down, To toil for man, to suffer or to die, - This is the same voice: can thy soul know change? Hail then, and harken from the realms of help! Never may I commence ...
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