Paradise

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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths
Enwrought with gold and silver light.

The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Lose who may I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!

One Way of Love
'Do not fear! Heaven is as near,'
He said, 'by water as by land!'

Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 1849
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