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HEAVEN AND HELL by FRANCIS THOMPSON

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First Line: TIS SAID THERE WERE NO THOUGHT OF HELL
Last Line: BUT AH, HOW FEW THE GOD THAT LOVES!
Subject(s): HEAVEN; HELL; PARADISE;
'TIS said there were no thought of hell,
Save hell were taught; that there should be
A Heaven for all's self-credible.
Not so the thing appears to me.
'Tis Heaven that lies beyond our sights,
And hell too possible that proves;
For all can feel the God that smites,
But ah, how few the God that loves!



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