Robert Browning

So may glory from defect arise.

So may glory from defect arise.

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

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

God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!

God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!

Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me--
(When fortune's malice
Lost her read more

Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me--
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais)--
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy."

Let my hand,
This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;
Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!

Let my hand,
This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;
Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!