“The year's at the spring, and day's at the morn; morning's at seven; the hill-side's dew-pearled; the lark's on the wing; the snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven. All's right with the world!”

Pippa's song is sung by a young woman wandering through the Italian spring, and its cheerfulness comes from the smallest details rather than from argument. Browning's play was staged in the same year it was published, and the song has been used at weddings ever since.