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God's in his heaven—All's right with the world!

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“God's in his heaven—All's right with the world!”

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Pippa’s song voices a moment of religious confidence and ordinary delight whose effect in the drama depends on other characters hearing it at morally decisive moments.

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Pippa Passes (1841), represented in the Project Gutenberg Robert Browning works edition #59123. The lyric is sung by Pippa inside a verse drama; its Christian optimism is a character-song within the play, not a factual guarantee that every event is good.

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