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by Unknown

For crime a shelter. Swift to Paradise

The contrite thief, not Judas with his price!”

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SONNET.

(AFTER THE ITALIAN.)

From the “Five Books of Song.” (1894.) The Century Co.

KNOW not if I love her overmuch;

But this I know, that when unto her face

She lifts her hand, which rests there, still, a space,