03: love & piety

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love & piety
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heaven forbid.
if not the world, the Lord does so.

to cherish her as my very own—
a fault to faith, virtue, and law,

a crime to conscience not alone—
this need not upon me proved.

heaven resents,
love dismayed,

there is nothing left to pray.

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