Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SCEPTIC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE


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First Line: My father christmas passed away
Last Line: My god or santa claus.
Subject(s): Christmas; Doubt; God; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Skepticism; Nicholas, Saint


My Father Christmas passed away
When I was barely seven.
At twenty-one, alack-a-day,
I lost my hope of heaven.

Yet not in either lies the curse:
The hell of it's because
I don't know which loss hurt the worse --
My God or Santa Claus.






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