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She will not hear my music? So! Break the string; fold music's wing; Suppose Pauline had bade me sing!
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How are we to take it? asks Mr Fotheringham of the latter.
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As the language of passion resenting death and this life's woeful incompleteness? or as a prevision of the soul in a moment of intensest life? The question may be asked; yet the passion of regret which glows and vibrates through it is too suffused with exalted faith in a final recovery to find poignant expression. This lyric, with its taking melody, has delighted thousands to whom Browning is otherwise
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partly because it appeals with naïve audacity at once to Romantic and to Christian sentiment--combining the faith in love's power to seal its object for ever as its own with the Christian faith in personal immortality--a personal immortality in which there is yet marrying and giving in marriage, as Romance demands. _The Last Ride Together_ has attracted a different audience. Its passion is of a rarer and more difficult kind, less accessible to the love and less flattering to the faith of common minds. This lover dreams of no future recovery of more than he still retains; his love, once for all, avails nothing; and the secure faith of Evelyn's lover, that
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God creates the love to reward the love, is not his. His mistress will never