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DEFLOWERED by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: ALL THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN
Last Line: GOD'S WORLD A WILDERNESS.

All the light of heaven
In a single beam
Unto earth was given,
As a perfect dream,
Wherein one bated breath
Of ecstasy is Death.

All of faith's believing
In one smile of love;
All of life's receiving
In a frown thereof:
For one frail flower the less,
God's world a wilderness.



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