Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
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Robert Browning
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About Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Robert BrowningFail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.