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Here--here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him--still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
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for the connexion of Power and Love in the abstract with Beauty and Good in the concrete, and finding a link between the lowliest service or worship and the spirit of God. Such a conception of a poet's crowning glory implied a peculiarly close relation in Browning's view between poetry and religion, and in particular with the religion which, above all others, glorified the lowly. Here lay, in short, the supreme worth for him of the Christian idea.
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The revelation of God in Christ was for him the consummate example of that union of divine love with the world--
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--which Shelley had contemplated in the radiant glow of his poetry; accepted by the reason, as he wrote a few years later, it solved
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To that solution Shelley seemed to Browning to be on the way, and his incomplete grasp of it appealed to him more powerfully than did the elaborate dogmatisms professedly based upon it. Shelley had mistaken
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Churchdom for Christianity; but he was on the way, Browning was convinced, to become a Christian himself.
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I shall say what I think,--had Shelley lived he would have finally ranged himself with the Christians.