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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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—And certainly you name the point
Whereon all turns: for could you joint
This flexile finite life once tight
Into the fixed and infinite,
You, safe inside, would spurn what's out,
With carelessness enough, no doubt—
Would spurn mere life: but when time brings
To their next stage your reasonings,
Your eyes, late wide, begin to wink
Nor see the path so well, I think.
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