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Last Line: The unobtrusive guest
Subject(s): Farewell


'Twas a long Parting - but the time
For Interview - had Come -
Before the Judgment Seat of God -
The last - and second time

These Fleshless Lovers met -
A Heaven in a Gaze -
A Heaven of Heavens - the Privilege
Of one another's Eyes -

No Lifetime - on Them -
Appareled as the new
Unborn - except They had beheld -
Born infiniter - now -

Was Bridal - e'er like This?
A Paradise - the Host -
And Cherubim - and Seraphim -
The unobtrusive Guest




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