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Here’s my case. Of old I used to love him This same unseen friend, before I knew: Dream there was none like him, none above him,— Wake to hope and trust my dream was true.... All my days, I’ll go the softlier, sadlier, For that dream’s sake! How forget the thrill Through and through me as I thought “The gladlier Lives my friend because I love him still!”
Here’s my case. Of old I used to love him This same unseen friend, before I knew: Dream there was none like him, none above him,— Wake to hope and trust my dream was true.... All my days, I’ll go the softlier, sadlier, For that dream’s sake! How forget the thrill Through and through me as I thought “The gladlier Lives my friend because I love him still!”
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 260 · printed citation: R. Browning (Fears and Scruples). · compiler notes excluded
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