A novel country; I might make it mine 

 Bp choosing jvhich^ne aspect of the year 

 Suited mood best, and putting solely that 

 On panel somewhere in the House of Fame, 

 Landscaping ivhat I saved, not Tvhat I sav>: 

 Might fix you, whether frost in goblin-time 

 Startled the moon with his abrupt bright laugh. 

 Or, August's hair afloat in filmy fire. 

 She fell, arms wide, face foremost on the world. 

 Swooned there and so singed out the strength of 



things. 

 Thus were abolished Spring and Autumn both. 

 The land dwarfed to one likeness of the land. 

 Life cramped corpse-fashion. Rather learn and love 

 Each facet- flash of the revolving year! 



Robert Browning, 

 "The Ring and the Book" 



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