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God and I in space alone / And nobody else in view. / "And where are the people, O Lord," I said, / "The earth below, and the sky o'er head, / And the dead whom once I knew?"
"That was a dream," God smiled and said- / "A dream that seemed to be true. / There were no people, living or dead, / There was no earth, and no sky o'erhead; / There was only Myself-in you."
"Why do I feel no fear," I asked, / "Meeting You here this way? / For I have sinned I know full well? / And is there heaven, and is there hell, / And is this the judgment day?"
"Say, those were but dreams," the Great God said, / "Dreams, that have ceased to be. / There are no such things as fear or sin, / There is no you-you never have been- / There is nothing at all but _Me_. "