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"God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here."
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"He is called an optimist; but the word suggests a calculated contentment which was not in the least one of his vices. What he really was was a romantic. He offered the cosmos as an adventure rather than a scheme. He did not explain evil, far less explain it away: he enjoyed defying it. He was a troubadour even in theology and metaphysics: like the Jongleurs de Dieu of St. Francis. He may be said to have serenaded heaven with a guitar, and even, so to speak, tried to climb there with a rope ladder."
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"Be there, for once and all, Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, Were they, my soul disdained, Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last! Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?"
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"Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up."
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"Over my head his arm he flung Against the world."
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"Sing, ridings a joy! For me I ride."
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"The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead."
All Writings Of Robert Browning