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On heaven
Redeemed humanity is still
young, it has hardly come /to its full strength.
But already there is joy
enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to
waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
Everything
becomes more and more itself.
Here is joy that cannot be shaken.
Our
light can swallow up your darkness; but your darkness cannot now infect
our light.
No, no, no. Come to us.
We will not go to you.
Can you really
have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns
and sighs?
Did you not know they were stronger than their opposites?
From The Great Divorce
Compiled in Words to Live By
The Great Divorce.
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