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Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 1/Memorabilia

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763579Men and Women — MemorabiliaRobert Browning

MEMORABILIA.

1.Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,And did he stop and speak to you?And did you speak to him again?How strange it seems, and new!
2.But you were living before that,And you are living after,And the memory I started at—My starting moves your laughter!
3.I crossed a moor with a name of its ownAnd a use in the world no doubt,Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone'Mid the blank miles round about—
4.For there I picked up on the heatherAnd there I put inside my breastA moulted feather, an eagle-feather—Well, I forget the rest.

END OF VOL. I.

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.