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What a hundred years is not enough to build, one day is more than enough to destroy.
God's first creature, which was light.
If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and n ...
He made all these and more,
Made all we see; and us, in spite: how else?
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Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the beauteous land.
Behold the Atom--I preferred--
To all the lists of Clay!
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite;
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I made god upon god
step from the cold rock,
I made the gods less than men
for I was a man and they my work....
Am I the god?
or does this fire carve me
for its use?
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
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