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IRONY by JAMES STEPHENS

First Line: THUS SPAKE A MAN IN DAYS OF OLD
Last Line: ...A BAG OF LEAD!
Subject(s): GOD; IRONY;
Thus spake a man in days of old:
I will believe that God can be
The kind, the just, that we are told,
If he will throw down here to me
A bag of gold --

But when his wife rose from her bed
To see what kept her man away,
She found him, with a broken head:
And on the ground beside him lay
...A bag of lead!



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