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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Natural Theology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Primitive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ate my fill of a whale that died<br>And stranded after a month at sea. . . .<br>There is a pain in my inside.<br>Why have the Gods afflicted me?<br>Ow! I am purged till I am a wraith!<br>Wow! I am sick till I cannot see!<br>What is the sense of Religion and Faith:<br>Look how the Gods have afflicted me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Pagan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can the skin of rat or mouse hold<br>Anything more than a harmless flea?. . .<br>The burning plague has taken my household.<br>Why have my Gods afflicted me?<br>All my kith and kin are deceased,<br>Though they were as good as good could be,<br>I will out and batter the family priest,<br>Because my Gods have afflicted me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Medieval</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My privy and well drain into each other<br>After the custom of Christendie. . . .<br>Fevers and fluxes are wasting my mother.<br>Why has the Lord afflicted me?<br>The Saints are helpless for all I offer--<br>So are the clergy I used to fee.<br>Henceforward I keep my cash in my coffer,<br>Because the Lord has afflicted me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Material</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I run eight hundred hens to the acre<br>They die by dozens mysteriously. . . .<br>I am more than doubtful concerning my Maker,<br>Why has the Lord afflicted me?<br>What a return for all my endeavour--<br>Not to mention the L. S. D!<br>I am an atheist now and for ever,<br>Because this God has afflicted me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Progressive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Money spent on an Army or Fleet<br>Is homicidal lunacy. . . .<br>My son has been killed in the Mons retreat,<br>Why is the Lord afflicting me?<br>Why are murder, pillage and arson<br>And rape allowed by the Deity?<br>I will write to the Times, deriding our parson<br>Because my God has afflicted me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Chorus</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had a kettle: we let it leak:<br>Our not repairing it made it worse.<br>We haven't had any tea for a week. . .<br>The bottom is out of the Universe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Conclusion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was none of the good Lord's pleasure,<br>For the Spirit He breathed in Man is free;<br>But what comes after is measure for measure,<br>And not a God that afflicteth thee.<br>As was the sowing so the reaping<br>Is now and evermore shall be.<br>Thou art delivered to thine own keeping.<br>Only Thyself hath afflicted thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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I ate my fill of a whale that died
And stranded after a month at sea. . . .
There is a pain in my inside.
Why have the Gods afflicted me?
Ow! I am purged till I am a wraith!
Wow! I am sick till I cannot see!
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