“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”

— Robert Browning , Colombe's Birthday

Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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