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Title: The Bedridden Peasant To An Unknowing God Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy] Much wonder I--here long low-laid - For, say one puts a child to nurse, But Thou, Lord, giv'st us men our clay That some disaster cleft Thy scheme And would'st not shape and shut us in Might but Thy sense flash down the skies But, seeing how much Thy creatures bear - Then, since Thou mak'st not these things be, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |