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FOOL'S PARADISE by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON

First Line: FOOL'S PARADISE,' I HEAR THE WISE ONES SAY
Last Line: I, THOUGH A FOOL, HAVE DWELT IN PARADISE!

@3"Fool's@1 Paradise", I hear the wise ones say.
Ah, but we do not put it that way --
We fools, who, sometimes wiser than the wise,
With clearer vision read, "Fool's @3Paradise"!@1

You say we lose them? So was Eden lost!
Who walks therein must ever pay the cost.
Yet how shall wisdom better this, O wise?
@3I, though a fool, have dwelt in Paradise!@1



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