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Life In A Love

By Robert Browning

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Escape me?     Never     Beloved!     While I am I, and you are you,     So long as the world contains us both,     Me the loving and you the loth     While the one eludes, must the other pursue.     My life is a fault at last, I fear     It seems too much like a fate, indeed!     Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed     But what if I fail of my purpose here?     It is but to keep the nerves at strain,     To dry ones eyes and laugh at a fall,     And, baffled, get up and begin again,     So the chace takes up ones life thats all.     While, look but once from your farthest bound     At me so deep in the dust and dark,     No sooner the old hope goes to ground     Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,     I shape me     Ever     Removed!

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About Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812–1889) was a major English Victorian poet who perfected the dramatic monologue form. His poems—including "My Last Duchess," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and "Fra Lippo Lippi"—explore psychology, morality, and art through the voices of vividly drawn characters.

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