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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Heaven

Willard Wattles

From “On the Road”

AH God, that love should be

Another road to pain,

And beauty as it blossoms

By its own terror slain!

Still—if death were not

Another way to love,

There were little need of heaven

That sages whisper of.