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1869–1935

The World

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Some are the brothers of all humankind, And own them, whatsoever their estate; And some, for sorrow and self-scorn, are blind With enmity for man's unguarded fate.

For some there is a music all day long Like flutes in Paradise, they are so glad; And there is hell's eternal under-song Of curses and the cries of men gone mad.

Some say the Scheme with love stands luminous, Some say‘ t were better back to chaos hurled; And so‘ t is what we are that makes for us The measure and the meaning of the world.

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