“Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”

— Robert Browning

The lost Leader, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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