I saw no use in the past: only a scene Of degradation, ugli… - Robert Browning

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I saw no use in the past: only a scene
Of degradation, ugliness, and tears;
The record of disgraces best forgotten;

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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Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

The sin I impute to each frustrute ghost
Is—the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin,
Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

Are means to the end, themselves in part the end?
Is fiction which makes fact alive, fact too?

I saw no use in the past: only a scene Of degradation, ugliness, and tears; The record of disgraces best forgotten; - Robert Browning

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