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Joaquin Miller's Poems

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Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

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XXIX

Love lifts on white wings to the gates
Of Paradise and enters in:
Lust has for wings two leaden weights
That sink into the lake of sin.
Lust squats, toad-like, his loathsome cell,
Love seeks the light, on, on, above;
Love is as God, as God is love,
But lust is Lucifer in hell.
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