XIX
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Despair
All yet—I have had some glimmer, at times, in my gloomiest woe,
Of a God behind all—after all—the great God for aught that I know;
But the God of Love and of Hell together—they cannot be thought,
If there be such a God, may the Great God curse him and bring him to nought!