The Unknown Eros
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Chapter 1 SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY.
Chapter 2 WIND AND WAVE.
Chapter 3 WINTER.
Chapter 4 BEATA.
Chapter 5 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW.
Chapter 6 TRISTITIA.
Chapter 7 THE AZALEA.
Chapter 8 DEPARTURE.
Chapter 9 EURYDICE.
Chapter 10 THE TOYS.
Chapter 11 TIRED MEMORY.
Chapter 12 MAGNA EST VERITAS.
Chapter 13 1867. {29}
Chapter 14 'IF I WERE DEAD.'
Chapter 15 PEACE.
Chapter 16 A FAREWELL.
Chapter 17 1880-85.
Chapter 18 THE TWO DESERTS.
Chapter 19 CREST AND GULF.
Chapter 20 'LET BE!'
Chapter 21 'FAINT YET PURSUING.'
Chapter 22 VICTORY IN DEFEAT.
Chapter 23 REMEMBERED GRACE.
Chapter 24 TO THE UNKNOWN EROS.
Chapter 25 THE CONTRACT.
Chapter 26 ARBOR VITAE.
Chapter 27 THE STANDARDS.
Chapter 28 SPONSA DEI.
Chapter 29 LEGEM TUAM DILEXI.
Chapter 30 TO THE BODY.
Chapter 31 'SING US ONE OF THE SONGS OF SION.'
Chapter 32 DELICIAE SAPIENTIAE DE AMORE.
Chapter 33 THE CRY AT MIDNIGHT.
Chapter 34 AURAS OF DELIGHT.
Chapter 35 EROS AND PSYCHE.
Chapter 36 DE NATURA DEORUM.
Chapter 37 PSYCHE'S DISCONTENT.
Chapter 38 PAIN.
Chapter 39 PROPHETS WHO CANNOT SING.
Chapter 40 THE CHILD'S PURCHASE.
Chapter 41 DEAD LANGUAGE.
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Chapter 22 VICTORY IN DEFEAT.

Ah, God, alas,

How soon it came to pass

The sweetness melted from thy barbed hook

Which I so simply took;

And I lay bleeding on the bitter land,

Afraid to stir against thy least command,

But losing all my pleasant life-blood, whence

Force should have been heart's frailty to withstand.

Life is not life at all without delight,

             
            

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