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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

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DRAMATIC ROMANCES.
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CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY.
  
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He muses.

Oh, which were best, to roam or rest?
The land's lap or the water's breast?
To sleep on yellow millet-sheaves,
Or swim in lucid shallows just
Eluding water-lily leaves,
An inch from Death's black fingers, thrust
To lock you, whom release he must;
Which life were best on Summer eves?
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