"THAT LOW MAN SEEKS A LITTLE THING TO DO, SEES IT AND DOES IT ;-(ROBERT BROWNING) "MY BUSINESS IS NOT TO REMAKE MYSELF,-(ROBERT BROWNING) So the stars wheeled round, and the darkness past, And at morn we started beside the mast, Now, one morn, land appeared a speck "Avoid it,” cried our pilot, "check And land, though but a rock, grew nigh; And steered right into the harbour thus, A hundred shapes of lucid stone! To sing because our task was done. "Our isles are just at hand," they cried, Our temple gates are opened wide, Our olive-groves thick shade are keeping BUT MAKE THE ABSOLUTE BEST OF WHAT GOD MADE."-R. BROWNING. THIS HIGH MAN, WITH A GREAT THING TO PURSUE, DIES ERE HE KNOWS IT."-R. BROWNING. "OH, POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE TONGUE! AS THE PREACHER SAITH."-R. BROWNING. 60 "WITH GOD A DAY ENDURES ALWAY,-(R. BROWNING) ROBERT BROWNING. Oh, then we awoke with a sudden start Which had received our precious freight : Yet we called out-" Depart! Our gifts once given must here abide. [From "Paracelsus," part iv.] "WE PENETRATE OUR LIFE WITH SUCH A GLOW AS FIRE LENDS WOOD AND IRON."-BROWNING. A ROMANCE. KING lived long ago, In the morning of the world, When Earth was nigher Heaven than now; Disparting o'er a forehead full As the milk-white space 'twixt horn and horn Only calm as a babe new born: From its threshold of smooth stone. A THOUSAND YEARS ARE BUT A DAY."-R. BROWNING. "OH, IF WE DRAW A CIRCLE PREMATURE, HEEDLESS OF FAR GAIN,-(ROBERT BROWNING) EACH DEED THOU HAST DONE DIES, ROBERT BROWNING) Swarthy and shameless—beggar-cheat- And sometimes clung about his feet, Of one, with sullen thick-set brows: Who ever in the darkness strode Backward and forward, keeping watch O'er his brazen bowls, such rogues to catch! The king judged, sitting in the sun. His councillors, on left and right, REVIVES, GOES TO WORK IN THE WORLD."-R. BROWNING. GREEDY FOR QUICK RETURNS OF PROFIT, SURE BAD IS OUR BARGAIN!"-R. BROWNING. 62 THERE REMAINETH A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF god, ROBERT BROWNING. Beholding this, he did not dare Approach that threshold in the sun, [From "Pippa Passes."] "ROUND THE CAPE OF A SUDDEN CAME THE SEA, AND THE SUN LOOKED OVER THE MOUNTAIN'S RIM,-BROWNING) EVELYN HOPE. I. B EAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead! The shutters are shut, no light may pass II. Sixteen years old when she died! Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name; Till God's hand beckoned unawares- III. It is too late, then, Evelyn Hope? THE USES OF LABOUR ARE SURELY DONE."-BROWNING. AND STRAIGHT WAS A PATH OF GOLD FOR HIM, AND THE NEED OF A WORLD OF MEN FOR ME."-R. BROWNING. "AND THE FRIENDS OF THY BOYHOOD-THAT BOYHOOD OF WONDER AND HOPE, -(R. BROWNING) And just because I was thrice as old, And our paths in the world diverged so wide, We were fellow-mortals, nought beside? IV. No, indeed! for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make, Delayed it may be for more lives yet, V. But the time will come-at last it will, In the new life come in the old one's stead. VI. I have lived (I shall say) so much since then, Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes; ACCEPTS THE COMING AGES' DUTY."-R. BROWNING. PRESENT PROMISE, AND WEALTH OF THE FUTURE, BEYOND THE EYE'S SCOPE."-ROBERT BROWNING. |