1910 · CLOSE READING
The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 33
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THE HERMIT
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When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer
He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.
Our hermit had dispensed with Sinais thunder,
But on the other hand he made no blunder ;
He knew (no doubt) that any axiom
Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.
But !all who urged that hermit to confess
Caught the infection of his happiness.
I would it were my fate to dree his weird ;
I think that I will grow an elfin beard.
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