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I but open my eyes,—and perfection, no more and no less, In the kind I imagined, full-fronts me, and God is seen God, In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's all-complete, And by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to His feet.
I but open my eyes,—and perfection, no more and no less, In the kind I imagined, full-fronts me, and God is seen God, In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's all-complete, And by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to His feet.
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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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 100; printed byline: Robert Browning; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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