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I	A
Here was I with my arm and heart	B
And brain all yours for a word a want	C
Put into a look just a look your part	B
While mine to repay it vainest vaunt	B
Were the woman that's dead alive to hear	D
Had her lover that's lost love's proof to show	E
But I cannot show it you cannot speak	F
From the churchyard neither miles removed	B
Though I feel by a pulse within my cheek	F
Which stabs and stops that the woman I loved	B
Needs help in her grave and finds none near	G
Wants warmth from the heart which sends it so	E
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II	A
Did I speak once angrily all the drear days	H
You lived you woman I loved so well	I
Who married the other Blame or praise	H
Where was the use then Time would tell	I
And the end declare what man for you	J
What woman for me was the choice of God	B
But Edith dead no doubting more	K
I used to sit and look at my life	L
As it rippled and ran till right before	K
A great stone stopped it oh the strife	L
Of waves at the stone some devil threw	J
In my life's midcurrent thwarting God	B
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III	A
But either I thought They may churn and chide	B
Awhile my waves which came for their joy	M
And found this horrible stone full tide	B
Yet I see just a thread escape deploy	M
Through the evening country silent and safe	N
And it suffers no more till it finds the sea	O
Or else I would think Perhaps some night	B
When new things happen a meteor ball	P
May slip through the sky in a line of light	B
And earth breathe hard and landmarks fall	P
And my waves no longer champ nor chafe	N
Since a stone will have rolled from its place let be	O
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IV	N
But dead All's done with wait who may	Q
Watch and wear and wonder who will	R
Oh my whole life that ends to day	Q
Oh my soul's sentence sounding still	R
The woman is dead that was none of his	S
And the man that was none of hers may go	E
There's only the past left worry that	B
Wreak like a bull on the empty coat	B
Rage its late wearer is laughing at	B
Tear the collar to rags having missed his throat	B
Strike stupidly on This this and this	T
Where I would that a bosom received the blow	E
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V	N
I ought to have done more once my speech	U
And once your answer and there the end	B
And Edith was henceforth out of reach	U
Why men do more to deserve a friend	B
Be rid of a foe get rich grow wise	V
Nor folding their arms stare fate in the face	W
Why better even have burst like a thief	N
And borne you away to a rock for us two	J
In a moment's horror bright bloody and brief	N
Then changed to myself again I slew	J
Myself in that moment a ruffian lies	V
Somewhere your slave see born in his place	W
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VI	N
What did the other do You be judge	X
Look at us Edith Here are we both	Y
Give him his six whole years I grudge	X
None of the life with you nay loathe	Z
Myself that I grudged his start in advance	A2
Of me who could overtake and pass	B2
But as if he loved you No not he	N
Nor anyone else in the world 't is plain	C2
Who ever heard that another free	N
As I young prosperous sound and sane	C2
Poured life out proffered it Half a glance	A2
Of those eyes of yours and I drop the glass	B2
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VII	N
Handsome were you 'T is more than they held	B
More than they said I was 'ware and watched	B
I was the 'scapegrace this rat belled	B
The cat this fool got his whiskers scratched	B
The others No head that was turned no heart	B
Broken my lady assure yourself	N
Each soon made his mind up so and so	E
Married a dancer such and such	D2
Stole his friend's wife stagnated slow	E
Or maundered unable to do as much	D2
And muttered of peace where he had no part	B
While hid in the closet laid on the shelf	N
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VIII	N
On the whole you were let alone I think	E2
So you looked to the other who acquiesced	B
My rival the proud man prize your pink	E2
Of poets A poet he was I've guessed	B
He rhymed you his rubbish nobody read	B
Loved you and doved you did not I laugh	N
There was a prize But we both were tried	B
Oh heart of mine marked broad with her mark	F2
Tekel found wanting set aside	B
Scorned See I bleed these tears in the dark	F2
Till comfort come and the last he bled	B
He He is tagging your epitaph	N
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IX	E
If it would only come over again	G2
Time to be patient with me and probe	H2
This heart till you punctured the proper vein	C2
Just to learn what blood is twitch the robe	H2
From that blank lay figure your fancy draped	B
Prick the leathern heart till the verses spirt	B
And late it was easy late you walked	B
Where a friend might meet you Edith's name	I2
Arose to one's lip if one laughed or talked	B
If I heard good news you heard the same	I2
When I woke I knew that your breath escaped	B
I could bide my time keep alive alert	B
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X	E
And alive I shall keep and long you will see	E
I knew a man was kicked like a dog	J2
From gutter to cesspool what cared he	E
So long as he picked from the filth his prog	J2
He saw youth beauty and genius die	B
And jollily lived to his hundredth year	G
But I will live otherwise none of such life	N
At once I begin as I mean to end	B
Go on with the world get gold in its strife	N
Give your spouse the slip and betray your friend	B
There are two who decline a woman and I	B
And enjoy our death in the darkness here	D
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XI	E
I liked that way you had with your curls	E
Wound to a ball in a net behind	B
Your cheek was chaste as a quaker girl's	E
And your mouth there was never to my mind	B
Such a funny mouth for it would not shut	B
And the dented chin too what a chin	K2
There were certain ways when you spoke some words	E
That you know you never could pronounce	E
You were thin however like a bird's	E
Your hand seemed some would say the pounce	E
Of a scaly footed hawk all but	B
The world was right when it called you thin	K2
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XII	E
But I turn my back on the world I take	J2
Your hand and kneel and lay to my lips	E
Bid me live Edith Let me slake	J2
Thirst at your presence Fear no slips	E
'T is your slave shall pay while his soul endures	E
Full due love's whole debt summum jus	E
My queen shall have high observance planned	B
Courtship made perfect no least line	L2
Crossed without warrant There you stand	B
Warm too and white too would this wine	L2
Had washed all over that body of yours	E
Ere I drank it and you down with it thus	E

Robert Browning

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