"Here's ivy! β take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 β June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.
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