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The Poetry Of Robert Browning

CHAPTER XI
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He says he was dead, and made alive again, but that is his madness; though the man seems sane enough.
At any rate, his disease has disappeared, he is as well as you and I.
But the mind and soul of the man, that is the strange matter, and in that he is entirely unlike other men.

Whatever he has gone through has rebathed him as in clear water of another life, and penetrated his whole being.

He views the world like a child, he scarcely listens to what goes on about him, yet he is no fool.

If one could fancy a man endowed with perfect knowledge beyond the fleshly faculty, and while he has this heaven in him forced to live on earth, such a man is he.

His heart and brain move there, his feet stay here.


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