Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch be…

Robert Browning
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? ✨ 'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1184
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? ✨ 'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1184

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