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First Line: Since god is good and god is all
Last Line: It can't be wrong, as there's no sin!
Subject(s): Christian Science


Since God is Good and God is All,
And All is God and All is Good,
It follows, then, whate'er befall
Must fall to my Beatitude.

Since God in All is God Entire,
And I'm in All and All in Me,
It follows that I may aspire
To be considered Deity.

Since God is I and I am God,
And God is Power and Power is I,
Methinks it would be rather odd
If any Force could Me defy.

There is no matter, say the Wise;
In man and nature Spirit reigns.
I only think that I have eyes;
I only think that I have brains.

There is no sin. It lingers in
The Concepts of untutored thought;
And therefore to believe in sin
Is deadly sin, as I am taught.

There is no pain, and I am glad;
For God is All, and Good, and so
No pain could be, since pain is Bad, --
Yes, very bad! I ought to know!

Belief in Pain is Very Wrong.
Who thought of it, I wonder, first?
And did it take him very long
To furbish up the Myth accurst?

[In the midst of her philosophizing the Christian Scientist is suddenly seized by a severe
Imaginary Toothache.]

Ouch! -- Fie! I mean. How weak I am,
Thus to debase my sovereign Me
Beneath an incorporeal qualm,
An out-of-date nonentity!

[Another twist of the illusory screws.]

Oh, my! My Tooth! Ouch! -- U-u-m! I mean
Alas, alas, my feeble faith!

[Speaking rapidly, as an exorcism.]

No -- tooth -- no -- ache -- no -- felt -- no -- seen,
All -- God -- Good -- Mrs. -- Eddy -- saith!

[The Illogical Unreality gets in some more of its fine work.]

Ouch! -- Oh, those Drops I used to use
Before I learned the Truth of Things!
But no! the Higher Way I'll choose.
Rise, Soul, on Faith's triumphant wings!

[Further Imaginary Qualms, attended by rapid cogitation.]

Behold, how flexible is Truth:
I'll stuff some paregoric in:
It can't do harm, as there's no Tooth;
It can't be wrong, as there's no Sin!





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