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Editor's Selection of Poems
Summum Bonum

by Robert Browning

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
Breath and bloom, shade and shine, --wonder, wealth, and--how far
above them--
    Truth that's brighter than gem,
    Trust, that's purer than pearl,--
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe--all were for me
    In the kiss of one girl.
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