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James Russell Lowell - Paolo To Francesca
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I was with thee in Heaven: I cannot tell
If years or moments, so the sudden bliss,
When first we found, then lost, us in a kiss.
Abolished Time, abolished Earth and Hell,
Left only Heaven. Then from our blue there fell
The dagger`s flash, and did not fall amiss,
For nothing now can rob my life of this,--
That once with thee in Heaven, all else is well.
Us, undivided when man`s vengeance came,
God`s half-forgives that doth not here divide;
And, were this bitter whirl-blast fanged with flame,
To me `twere summer, we being side by side:
This granted, I God`s mercy will not blame,
For, given thy nearness, nothing is denied.
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