Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the b…

Robert Browning
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ✨ 'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586
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