Robert Browning

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.

For thence,--a paradox
Which comforts while it mocks,--
Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
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For thence,--a paradox
Which comforts while it mocks,--
Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me:
A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
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In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.