For, looking up, aware I somehow grew, ’Spite of the dusk, … - Robert Browning

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For, looking up, aware I somehow grew,
’Spite of the dusk, the plain had given place
All round to mountains - with such name to grace
Mere ugly heights and heaps now stolen in view.
How thus they had surprised me - solve it, you!
How to get from them was no clearer case.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Alternative Names: Robert Barrett Browning • Browning

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One sees a reason for the cheat: one sees
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Where no cheat had been.

So, take, and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in thy hand! Perfect the cup as planned! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!

Grime is grace
To whoso gropes amid the dung for gold.

For, looking up, aware I somehow grew, ’Spite of the dusk, the plain had given place All round to mountains - with such name to grace Mere ugly heigh… - Robert Browning

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