For, note when evening shuts, A certain moment cuts The deed off, calls the glory from the gray: A whisper from the west Shoots--"Add this to the rest, Take it and try its worth: here dies another day."
Browning’s imagined Rabbi Ben Ezra — in Robert Browning’s Rabbi Ben Ezra (1864)
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- Rabbi Ben Ezra (1864); Exact wording and attribution checked. Spoken by Browning’s imagined Rabbi Ben Ezra, a fictional character, in Rabbi Ben Ezra (1864). Complete stanza treating each evening as an opportunity to assess a day.
- Rabbi Ben Ezra (1864)
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