“Have they fancies — slow, perchance,
Not at their beck, which indistinctly glance
Until by song each floating part be linked
To each, and all grow palpable, distinct?
He pondered this.”

—  Robert Browning , book Sordello

Book the Second
Sordello (1840)

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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