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1812–1889

WANTING IS — WHAT?

Robert Browning

Wanting is — what? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, — Where is the blot?

Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same — Framework which waits for a picture to frame; What of the leafage, what of the flower? Roses embowering with naught they embower!

Come then, complete incompletion, O comer, Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer! Breathe but one breath Rose-beauty above,

And all that was death Grows life, grows love, Grows love!

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