< Evening Songs (1920)

XXVI

Tell wherein thou hast sinned, my heart;
My God, such tribulation!
That what forever should be joined
Must live in separation.

How beautiful the life would be
In love without distressing!
But to forever yearn and live—
Where is therein a blessing?

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