<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life and death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This world is driven by two contending powers-- <br>Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust, <br>And that dire pledge of Hell's self-perjured Lust-- <br>And as we list must Heaven and Hell be ours. <br>Not light the election runs: lo, each devours <br>That savour set in each, while equal gust <br>Each uses; yet our choice support we must-- <br>Blest wine or, this rejected, sweat that sours. <br>Love, oft through Hell that seems, acclaims what Heaven! <br>But Lust, through seeming Heaven, with easy breath <br>Slides on to Hell, how soon, how richly given! <br>If Love to heavenly state so quickeneth, <br>While Lust must e'er in cheating Hell be shriven, <br>They sponsor what, these powers, but Life and Death?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Baylebridge">William Baylebridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536795" data-title="Life and death de William Baylebridge" data-description="This world is driven by two contending powers-- Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust, And that dire pledge of Hell's self-perjured Lust-- And as we list must Heaven and Hell be ours. Not light the election runs: lo, each devours That..."></div> </div> </div>

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