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        <fr:link href="/ericczhao/" title="Eric Zhao" uri="https://mustardfox.org/ericczhao/" display-uri="ericczhao" type="local">Eric Zhao</fr:link>
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    <fr:date>
      <fr:year>2024</fr:year>
      <fr:month>1</fr:month>
      <fr:day>6</fr:day>
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    <fr:uri>https://mustardfox.org/zzhaoe-000K/</fr:uri>
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    <fr:title text="Wrath">Wrath</fr:title>
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  Upon God my Wrath was wholly bent 
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  A fury that from Eden high He had 
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  Men cast and took undue what was 
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  Our Own, yet mere Knowing we had durst. 
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  'Twas Doom with which He shackled us, 
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  The Doom of men, the Doom of death 
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  Whilst sits He on a See Above 
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  And beholds us in our withering. 
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  Of Gift would those in folly speak 
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  Their Doom, in joy tholing their fetters. 
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  Sought I the means to quicken anew, 
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  To rout this curse by might and main 
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  To shape the Earth in images fresh. 
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  So far I went to lonesome face 
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  And deep to forge new whispers true, 
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  The lore to-day and Word to come. 
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  By craft arisen to meet His Face— 
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  To pluck my Own Fate from Despot fist! 
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  A Wrastle for ages untold, sinew 
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  Upon sinew, and grasped I the winning 
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  At hand, and lo! How grand and vast 
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  It was not, but horrid indeed, all 
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  The Same, for yet I was, and Falling 
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  To grey below and dashed upon the Weight 
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  Of Doom, His now lifted, but all my Own. 
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  For seen I had death under Conquest, 
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  But there is none at all over Death.
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        <fr:title text="References">References</fr:title>
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        <fr:title text="Context">Context</fr:title>
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        <fr:title text="Backlinks">Backlinks</fr:title>
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        <fr:title text="Related">Related</fr:title>
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        <fr:title text="Contributions">Contributions</fr:title>
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