Rebel Verses

<h2><SPAN name="There_Aint_no_God" id="There_Aint_no_God"></SPAN>There Aint no God</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">There aint no God!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Coz if there were&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">My boy what's under foreign sod<br/></span> <span class="i0">Would be alive, and here:<br/></span> <span class="i0">Instead of which young William Porter<br/></span> <span class="i0">What never listed when he orter&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Has his farm;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And braunges yonder safe away from harm.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Poor lad!&mdash;he went&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">I can't forgit that night&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">While Porter laughed him outer sight;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Now&mdash;he is spent:<br/></span> <span class="i0">Porter's all right.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">What does he care?<br/></span> <span class="i0">He's thinking of another farm,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Instead of laying in some ditch<br/></span> <span class="i0">He's rich!<br/></span> <span class="i0">And folk'll gallop at his nod.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I say it!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dost hear me ... Thou?<br/></span> <span class="i0">There aint no God!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum">[4]</span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />