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1865–1936

PAGAN

Rudyard Kipling

How can the skin of rat or mouse hold Anything more than a harmless flea?... The burning plague has taken my household. Why have my Gods afflicted me?

All my kith and kin are deceased, Though they were as good as good could be. I will out and batter the family priest, Because my Gods have afflicted me.

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