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Title: "Round Us The Wild Creatures" Author: Robert Browning [More Titles by Browning] Round us the wild creatures, overhead the trees, Rich-pavilioned, rather--still the world without-- So, for us no world? Let throngs press thee to me! NOTE The first interlude in _Ferishtah's Fancies_. These interludes are love lyrics which follow the separate Fables and Fancies of the Persian Dervish Ferishtah, and state in terms of the affections the truth embodied in didactic or philosophical fashion in the fables. In the first fable, "The Eagle," the Dervish observes an eagle feeding some deserted ravens. His first inference is that men will be cared for as the ravens, without effort of their own; later he sees that men should be as eagles and provide for the weak. The Dervish at once seeks the largest sphere of human usefulness with the words The lyric protests against the temptation to self-centered seclusion on the part of those who are entirely satisfied in each other's love. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |