• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet 1806-1861
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. cross-time
2. vinegar
3. sponge
4. bitter
5. which

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. by : Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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