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GHAZELES: 8 by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

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First Line: ALL THINGS ONCE ARE THINGS FOR EVER
Last Line: GOD AND MAN ARE ONE FOR EVER.
ALL things once are things for ever;
Soul, once living, lives for ever;
Blame not what is only once,
When that once endures for ever;
Love, once felt, though soon forgot,
Moulds the heart to good for ever;
Once betrayed from childly faith,
Man is conscious man for ever:
Once the void of life revealed,
It must deepen on for ever,
Unless God fill up the heart
With himself for once and ever:
Once made God and man at once,
God and man are one for ever.



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