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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Best Thing in the World

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

WHAT’S the best thing in the world?

June-rose by May-dew impearled;

Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;

Truth, not cruel to a friend;

Pleasure, not in haste to end;

Beauty, not self-decked and curled

Till its pride is over-plain;

Light, that never makes you wink;

Memory, that gives no pain;

Love, when so you’re loved again.

What’s the best thing in the world?—

Something out of it, I think.