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“his mouth redeemed
His insufficient eyes, forever sad:
In them there was no life-glimpse, good or bad,
Nor joy nor passion in them ever gleamed;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“If after all that we have lived and thought,
All comes to Nought,—
If there be nothing after Now,
And we be nothing anyhow,
And we know that,—why live?”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“They are all gone away,
The house is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
—C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

“And from the fulness of his heart he fished
A dime for Jesus who had died for men.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)