“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.”

— Robert Browning

"At the 'Mermaid'"(1876) 
Context: Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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