<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396835" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Hearing The News From Venice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(The Death Of Robert Browning)<br>Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak,<br>And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier.<br>Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear:<br>We are the smitten mortal, we the weak.<br>We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak<br>Shine, and wing hence the way he makes more clear:<br>See a great Tree of Life that never sere<br>Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak.<br>Such ending is not Death: such living shows<br>What wide illumination brightness sheds<br>From one big heart, to conquer man's old foes:<br>The coward, and the tyrant, and the force<br>Of all those weedy monsters raising heads<br>When Song is murk from springs of turbid source.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">December 13, 1889.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396835" data-title="On Hearing The News From Venice de George Meredith" data-description="(The Death Of Robert Browning) Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak, And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier. Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear: We are the smitten mortal, we the weak. We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest pe..."></div> </div> </div>

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