<h2><SPAN name="page45"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>HEAVEN AND HELL</h2>
<p class="poetry">While forced to dwell apart from thy dear
face,<br/>
Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand<br/>
And taught my doubting heart to understand<br/>
That which has puzzled all the human race.<br/>
Full many a sage has questioned where in space<br/>
Those counter worlds were? where the mystic
strand<br/>
That separates them? I have found each
land,<br/>
And Hell is vast, and Heaven a narrow space.</p>
<p class="poetry">In the small compass of thy clasping arms,<br/>
In reach and sight of thy dear lips and eyes,<br/>
There, there for me the joy of Heaven lies.<br/>
Outside, lo! chaos, terrors’ wild alarms,<br/>
And all the desolation fierce and fell<br/>
Of void and aching nothingness, makes Hell.</p>
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