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Have you found your life distasteful? My life did—and does—smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fails me, I’ll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
Have you found your life distasteful? My life did—and does—smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fails me, I’ll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 114 · printed citation: R. Browning (At the Mermaid). · compiler notes excluded
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