To the editor:

Two married couples made natural love

Secure with the blessings of their God above.

One couple protected; the other not.

Both were true lovers, just one begot.

Now which committed the greater sin,

The one that brought an unwanted life in

To a world with too many mouths to feed,

Or the one who made no new life with their deed?

One couple went on to love again.

The other poor lovers could only abstain.

GEOFF HORNSBY

Freeland