Page:Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hitherto unpublished, 1921.djvu/75

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fling cruelty of existence to God. The phrase he used is that of a desperate mood; and how little hope he had of regaining the affection of his beloved is set forth in the last line of the closing stanza where he says, "A while, and she will only hate."


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