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So, loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The… — Matthew Arnold

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So, loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.

Matthew Arnold
Empedocles on Etna · 1852
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God and man
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Poem
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1852
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Matthew Arnold
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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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