O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought - a convict soul. - Walt Whitman

I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you

"When I Read the Book"

When I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.