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POEMS.
V.
FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
II.
HEAVEN is what I cannot reach !
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
That ' heaven ' is, to me.
The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind,
There Paradise is found !
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