A WOMAN'S LOVE, A SENTINEL angel, sitting high in glory, But soon adown the dying sunset sailing, She sobbed, "I found him by the summer sea “I loved, — and, blind with passionate love, I She curled his hair and kissed him. Woe is me!" Love brought me down to death, and death to I have been fond and foolish. Let me in She wept, "Now let my punishment begin! fell. Hell; For God is just, and death for sin is well. “I do not rage against his high decree, "Great Spirit! Let me see my love again And comfort him one hour, and I were fain To pay a thousand years of fire and pain." Then said the pitying angel, "Nay, repent But still she wailed, "I pray thee, let me go! The brazen gates ground sullenly ajar, |