The Complete Works of Robert Browning Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...gratefully accept For me, had I some unguent bound to heal Hurts in a twinkling, hardly would I dare Essay its virtue and so cross the sage By cure his skill pronounces folly. Quick No waiting longer There the patient lies: Out then with implements and operate '" "Ah, the young devil " "Why, his reason chimed Right with the Hakim's." "Hakim's, ay--but chit's? How? what the skilled eye saw and judged of weight To overbear a heavy consequence, That--shall a sciolist affect to see? All he saw--that is, all such oaf should see, Was just the mother's suffering." "In my tale, Be God the Hakim: in the husband's case, Call ready acquiescence--aptitude Angelic, understanding swift and sure: Call the first son--a wise humanity, Slow to conceive but duteous to adopt: See in the second son--humanity, Wrong-headed yet right-hearted, rash but kind. Last comes the cackler of the brood, our chit Who, aping wisdom all beyond his years, Thinks to discard humanity itself: Fares like the beast which should affect to fly Because a bird with wings may spurn the ground, So, missing heaven and losing earth--drops how But hell-ward? No, be man and nothing more--Man who, as man conceiving, hopes and fears, And craves and deprecates, and loves, and loathes, And bids God help him, till death touch his eyes And show God granted most, denying alL" Man I am and man would be, Love--merest man and nothing more. Bid me seem no other Eagles boast of pinions--let them soar I may put forth angel's plumage, once unmanned, but not before. Now on earth, to stand suffices, --nay, if kneeling serves, to kneel: Here you front me, here I find the all of heaven that earth can feel: Sense looks straight, --not over, under, --perfect sees...