The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dear heaven, how silly are the things that live
In thickets, and eat berries!
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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Art for art,
And good for God Himself, the essential Good !
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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