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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

Robert Bly
Party, Heaven, Delicacy
Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company
But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.