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'Summum Bonum' (1889)

— Robert Browning

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  2. The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips m…
  3. A minute's success pays the failure of years.
  4. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong…
  5. What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
  6. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:
  7. Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.
  8. My sun sets to rise again.

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