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For life, with all its yields of joy and woe And hope and fear,—believe the aged friend,— Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning love; How love might be, hath been indeed, and is; And that we hold henceforth to the uttermost Such prize despite the envy of the world, And having gained truth, keep truth, that is all.
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe And hope and fear,—believe the aged friend,— Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning love; How love might be, hath been indeed, and is; And that we hold henceforth to the uttermost Such prize despite the envy of the world, And having gained truth, keep truth, that is all.
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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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 337; printed byline: Robert Browning; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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