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!

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