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The Bible is an antique Volume--
Written by faded Men
At the suggestion of Holy Spectres--
Subjects--Bethlehem--
Eden--The ancient Homestead--
Satan--The Brigadier--
Judas--the Great Defaulter--
David--the Troubadour--
Sin--a distinguished Precipice
Others must resist--
Boys that "believe" are very lonesome--
Other Boys are "lost"--
Had but the Tale a warbling Teller--
All the Boys would come--
Orpheus' Sermon captivated--
It did not condemn--
1882 |
Apparently with no surprise
To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play--
In accidental power--
The blonde Assassin passes on--
The Sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another Day
For an Approving God
1884 |
My life closed twice before its close--
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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