<h2><SPAN name="Flesh_of_our_Flesh" id="Flesh_of_our_Flesh"></SPAN>Flesh of our Flesh</h2>
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<span class="i0">There is but one irrevocable bond,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Heart of my heart! None other counteth here,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">All claims beside must fail, however fond,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But this is surety never to be broken<br/></span>
<span class="i0">By us Beloved! the eternal token<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Of love made manifest beyond our fear:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Of sweetest deepest draught the living bowl!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Although remorse should tear our hearts in twain,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The world, to part us, rageth now in vain<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And life new-born through life doth bind us ever:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Strange incarnation! out of each made whole!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">No prayer avails, no penances can sever:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The Holy Ghost—the Spirit—releaseth never<br/></span>
<span class="i0">When flesh and blood and spirit beget a soul.<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum">[36]</span></div>
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