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Where is the use of the lip’s red charm, The heaven of hair, the pride of the brow, And the blood that blues the inside arm— Unless we turn, as the soul knows how, The earthly gift to an end divine? A lady of clay is as good, I trow.
Where is the use of the lip’s red charm, The heaven of hair, the pride of the brow, And the blood that blues the inside arm— Unless we turn, as the soul knows how, The earthly gift to an end divine? A lady of clay is as good, I trow.
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 313 · printed citation: R. Browning. · compiler notes excluded
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