"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."

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