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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Part VIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The youth is somehow by the lady's side.<br>His right-hand grasps her right-hand once again.<br>Both gaze on the dead body. Hers the word.<br>"And that was good but useless. Had I lived<br>The danger was to dread: but, dying now—<br>Himself would hardly become talkative,<br>Since talk no more means torture. Fools—what fools<br>These wicked men are! Had I borne four years,<br>Four years of weeks and months and days and nights,<br>Inured me to the consciousness of life<br>Coiled round by his life, with the tongue to ply,—<br>But that I bore about me, for prompt use<br>At urgent need, the thing that 'stops the mouth'<br>And stays the venom? Since such need was now<br>Or never,—how should use not follow need?<br>Bear witness for me, I withdraw from life<br>By virtue of the license—warrant, say,<br>That blackens yet this Album—white again,<br>Thanks still to my one friend who tears the page!<br>Now, let me write the line of supplement,<br>As counselled by my foe there: ' each a line!'"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she does falteringly write to end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I die now through the villain who lies dead,<br>Righteously slain. He would have outraged me,<br>So, my defender slew him. God protect<br>The right! Where wrong lay, I bear witness now.<br>Let man believe me, whose last breath is spent<br>In blessing my defender from my soul!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so ends the Inn Album.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">    As she dies,<br>Begins outside a voice that sounds like song,<br>And is indeed half song though meant for speech<br>Muttered in time to motion—stir of heart<br>That unsubduably must bubble forth<br>To match the fawn-step as it mounts the stair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"All's ended and all's over! Verdict found<br>'Not guilty'—prisoner forthwith set free,<br>Mid cheers the Court pretends to disregard!<br>Now Portia, now for Daniel, late severe,<br>At last appeased, benignant! 'This young man—<br>Hem—has the young man's foibles but no fault.<br>He's virgin soil—a friend must cultivate.<br>I think no plant called "love" grows wild—a friend<br>May introduce, and name the bloom, the fruit!'<br>Here somebody dares wave a handkerchief—<br>She'll want to hide her face with presently!<br>Good-by then! 'Cigno fedel, cigno fedel,<br>Addio!' Now, was ever such mistake—<br>Ever such foolish ugly omen? Pshaw!<br>Wagner, beside! 'Amo te solo, te<br>Solo amai!' That's worth fifty such!<br>But, mum, the grave face at the opened door!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so the good gay girl, with eyes and cheeks<br>Diamond and damask,—cheeks so white erewhile<br>Because of a vague fancy, idle fear<br>Chased on reflection!—pausing, taps discreet;<br>And then, to give herself a countenance,<br>Before she comes upon the pair inside,<br>Loud—the oft-quoted, long-laughed-over line—<br>" 'Hail, calm acclivity, salubrious spot!'<br>Open the door!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  No: let the curtain fall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</a> from <i>The Inn Album</i><div class=q>
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