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If but some vengeful god would call to meFrom up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than IHad willed and meted me the tears I shed.But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?--Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.The God of the Old Testament.An invented god of chance: a complement to the vengeful God.The final lines have the power of a couplet, but not the rhyme of a couplet.Perhaps the root word casual is more operative here than the notion of a person wounded in a war.