An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning
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Compare with this, the following stanzas from Tennyson's `In Memoriam', Section 54: -- "Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete. * * * * * Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last -- far off -- at last, to all, And every winter change to spring." Rabbi Ben Ezra. Accompany me, my young friend, in my survey of life from youth |
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