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Show ROBERT BROWNING, PHILOSOPHER-POET. ' WHAT HE SAID. God's Justice, tardy though It prove perchance. per-chance. Rests never on the track until tt reach delinquency. Progress, man's distinctive mark alone. He who did well In war Just eame the right. To begin doing well In peace. Loftr designs must close In like effects. All service ranks the same with God With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there la no last nor first. " I Judge people by what they might be-not be-not are, nor will be. 'Tls not what man doe which exalts him, but what man would do. There ehall never be one lost good. Other heights in other lives, God willing. will-ing. Whn is man strong until he feels alone? WHO HE WAS. The man from whose poems these say sayings are taken has been called the most cryptic, the most Involved, of English poet. Of one of hi famous poems. "Bordello," Alfred Tennyson once said: "There are only two Intelligible line In it: the first 'Who will may hear Bordello's story told' nd the last Who would has heard Bordello's story told' and both of them are untrue." Blnce his death, nearly fifteen yeara ago, Browning students think they have discovered the secret of hi ecrecy. It Is due to his wife. 8he was a poet: he was ene. They eloped and were married in 1848, when she was 39 and he wa 34 year old. Thereafter they were never apart for a day until Mrs. Browning's death In 1861. Each understood the mind of the other to an extent unusual even among married people: and they omitted. In their letters and their conversation the words and Ideas that each knew that the other understood unwritten and unspoken. un-spoken. Browning could write clearly. His Pled Piper of Hamelin" and hi "How They Brought the Good News .Prom Ghent to Aix" show that. - Robert Browning was born on May 7, 181S, and died in Venice on December 7, 1889! He Is buried In Westminster Abbey in London. |