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"The heavens have not shown,
Nor their god-heads known!"
- From "Selindra" - Sir William Killigrew (1605-1693)
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The skeptic, with respect, well understood,
There is much room for common doom.
Nor to these alone confined - about,
There are more quaint and subtle ways to doubt!
The triumph of a smile or kiss
Mingle with the ashes of a cunning tryst.
Famine, plague and war- ensure,
Support the skeptic's virtues more.
Holidays, high days, gypsy fairs,
A ring-dropping, gulling trick in pairs,
The skeptic speaks of weak morality,
With misty eyes to blantant infamy.
Belief comes and thus ascribed,
The shadows below, a thought apprised!
The skeptic thus must justify
A simple form to nullify.
The skeptic keeps back frozen fears,
No longings, yearnings or sheding tears.
All which strives for happiness
Discovers freely and senses less.
Even beauty, inviolet lays,
In languid manner and sullen ways.
To honor nothing, in dismal fix,
That love is false and hate, betwix't.
What is clear? Pray tell us what;
So feckless, seeking this and that.
The skeptic calls upon a myth,
In shady grove and streams inflict
A constant lethargy of faith,
"Accursed," says he, "for perdition's sake!"
There's less a craving for star-lit nights,
The skeptic ne'er looks upon this sight,
But stays with feet so firm to earth,
That features lose their mystic dearth.
"Insoluable, unknowable," says he,
"Free will? How can that ever be?"
Language will not leave intact
"Where's God?" Now here's a certain fact,
Conceptualism's metaphor
Precedes the skeptic's doubt once more.
Oh! on and on the theory goes,
"What's the use, it's mankind's woes."
Leave it at that -
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