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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth's crammed with...

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Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes --
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. . . .

Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. VII, 1. 820, 1857.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Mar 6 1806-1861), English poet; She was noted for writing her own love story in verse.


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