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Edwin Markham's quatrain 'Outwitted' ('He drew a circle that shut me out... We drew a circle that took him in'), quoted for love that includes where exclusion shuts out. In 1948: since God is love, the loved one has access to the sensory experiences of the lover, so even the child who dies at birth has a keyboard of experience. Later: one loves without asking permission, and the only one excluded is he who draws a little circle round himself.
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Edwin Markham, Outwitted | He drew a circle that shut me out, Infidel, scoundrel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win! We drew a circle that took him in.
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The loved one has access to the sensory experiences of the lover