XVIII
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Despair
Hell? if the souls of men were immortal, as men have been told,
The lecher would cleave to his lusts, and the miser would yearn for his gold,
And so there were Hell for ever! but were there a God as you say,
His Love would have power over Hell till it utterly vanish'd away.