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"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. "