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1850–1919

DUAL

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You say that your nature is double; that life Seems more and more intricate, complex, and dual, Because in your bosom there wages the strife ‘ Twixt an angel of light and a beast that is cruel -

An angel who whispers your spirit has wings, And a beast who would chain you to temporal things.

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