��ULTIMATE HELL
Satax? lam.
The Other One ? " The Great I am " ? Who knows? IMillenniums ago Some rumor ran that He existed yet ! I half believed it true, as loath to think That He'd outwitted me, or suffered harm To rob me of a thrill. Eternity Is deadly now, I own.
His name, you say, was God.
As I recall, it was. Priests mumbled it.
And cutthroats bawled it for an oath,
Then, all at once, the priests began to think,
And ceased to pray.
'Twas quite the oddest thing that I have known.
And mv dear Foe became thenceforth a mvth,
Or faded, like the morning cloud, with man's
Immortal hope (poor Tyndall's, eke, whose word
I'll not forget) into the azure past.
WTiat of my kingdom now ?
I have no kingdom now. Long time ago
I tired of kings, as God in His day tired.
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