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Ballad Of The Double-Soul |
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Title: Ballad Of The Double-Soul Author: James Branch Cabell [More Titles by Cabell] "_Les Dieux, qui trop aiment ses faceties cruelles_"--PAUL VERVILLE.
"Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; "So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling Yet some have the Gods forgotten,--or is it that subtler mirth _For this is the song of the double-soul, distortedly two in one,--_ For one that with hope in the morning set forth, and knew never a fear, And one is fain to be climbing where only angels have trod, And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, _So this is the song of the double-soul, distortedly two in one.--_ [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |