What Tomas An Buile Said In A Pub

I SAW GOD. Do you doubt it?
     Do you dare to doubt it?
I saw the Almighty Man. His hand
Was resting on a mountain, and
He looked upon the World and all about it :
I saw him plainer than you see me now,
     You mustn't doubt it.

He was not satisfied ;
     His look was all dissatisfied.
His beard swung on a wind far out of sight
Behind the world's curve, and there was light
Most fearful from His forehead, and He sighed,
"That star went always wrong, and from the start
     I was dissatisfied."

He lifted up His hand—
     I say He heaved a dreadful hand
Over the spinning Earth, then I said,"Stay,
You must not strike it, God ; I'm in the way ;
And I will never move from where I stand."
He said, "Dear child, I feared that you were dead,"
     And stayed His hand.

Insurrections [1909]