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"God," she whispered, "is Love Heaven?

Is Heaven a place of dole?"

(And so she gave his Heaven to the man

Because the man did crave it.

And so because she never asked Hell's ban

He gave it.)

"Devil!" he said, "Love's Hell!

Man's wild-beast-thirst, how slake it?

Take the tenderest thing, thus—thus!