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- And if God choose...
- And if God choose...
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...I shall but love thee
better after death.
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- You know it?
- Elizabeth Browning, my favorite poet.
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- She was ours too.
- Fantastic!
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Yes! She's no longer so much
in the fashion...
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...but how we loved her.
I'll tell you a little story.
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When Emilienne and I lived in Venice...
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...we rented a small villa.
One Sunday the plumbing went out...
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...and I couldn't get a plumber so I
went down to make some repairs myself.
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And crawling about in the dark
I came upon some papers.
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Poetry.
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- Have you guessed?
- No.
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We had been living in the
Brownings' villa and didn't know it!
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- Fantastic! Were they new poems?
- No, mostly drafts...
:26:57
...which improved
when they were published.
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Some of the
Sonnets from the Portuguese...
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...and pages from a journal she kept
describing the people they met...
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...the places they went,
the trips to the Lido...
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...the kiss under the bridge.
- What bridge?
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There is an old Venetian legend
which says that...
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...if two lovers kiss in a gondola
under the Bridge of Sighs...
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...at sunset when the bells
of the campanile toll...
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...they will love each other forever.
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And they did?
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She died in his arms
some years later.
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And you and Emilienne?
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The legend is true.