“Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?”

— George Meredith

Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems1/00000087.htm, st. 13 (1862).

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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