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(The two following poems were written at that period of my life when the questions of the existence of God and the divinity of Jesus had but recently been settled, and they present the pros and cons which had been repeating themselves over and over again in my brain for some years.)
We contrast light and darkness -- light of God, / And darkness from the Stygian shades of hell; / Fumes of the pit infernal rising up / Have clouded o'er the brain, laid reason low; --