Religion
LXVII
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Religion
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,
Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
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