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AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 10. THE BARGAIN by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

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First Line: I CALLED UPON YOUR SOUL
Last Line: PRICE FOR YOUR SOUL?
Subject(s): SOUL;
I called upon your soul,
Once, and I named your name,
Once, and I bade your soul
Come, at my will's control,
Body and soul at your name,
Come: then you came.

For your soul you asked no price,
For your heart you asked but a loan;
Yet I paid for your soul the price
Of a living sacrifice,
Yet I lent for your heart no loan,
I gave you my own.

I call upon your name,
Now, and I claim your soul,
Still; for all time I claim
Body and soul in my name.
Have I not paid the whole
Price for your soul?



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