Versos English Robert Browning Xli

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Xli

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Why, where but in the sense And soul of me, Art's judge? Art is my evidence That something was, is, might be; but no more thing itself, Than flame is fuel. Once the verse-book laid on shelf, The picture turned to wall, the music fled from ear,-- Each beauty, born of each, grows clearer and more clear, Mine henceforth, ever mine!