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Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses
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A Dream Question
"It shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine." Micah iii. 6.
I asked the Lord: "Sire, is this true Which hosts of theologians hold, That when we creatures censure you For shaping griefs and ails untold (Deeming them punishments undue) You rage, as Moses wrote of old?
When we exclaim: ’Beneficent He is not, for he orders pain, Or, if so, not omnipotent: To a mere child the thing is plain!’ Those who profess to represent You, cry out: ’Impious and profane!’"
He: "Save me from my friends, who deem That I care what my creatures say! Mouth as you list: sneer, rail, blaspheme, O manikin, the livelong day, Not one grief-groan or pleasure-gleam Will you increase or take away.
"Why things are thus, whoso derides, May well remain my secret still . . . A fourth dimension, say the guides, To matter is conceivable. Think some such mystery resides Within the ethic of my will."
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Chicago: Thomas Hardy, "A Dream Question," Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNYUQB5KW3QWTP1.
MLA: Hardy, Thomas. "A Dream Question." Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, edited by Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNYUQB5KW3QWTP1.
Harvard: Hardy, T, 'A Dream Question' in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CNYUQB5KW3QWTP1.
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