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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 114
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III
Is love indeed eternal ? Otherwise
Is evolution an eternal plan ?
Must I move upward in the stream of Man,
God-ward : my life as Christ to sacrifice,
As Buddha to repress : to grow so wise,
Space, time shall lie within my finger-span ?
I know not which I wish : either I can ;
Not both, unless all meditation lies.
I am not sure : if love as great as ours
May not be God to part of us at least,
Leaving the Rest to find its heights and powers
In other spheres ; that, night’s enamoured priest ;
This, on the lake the dewy lotus-flowers
That lift their jewelled hearts toward the East.
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