THE MYSTERY

                     The deepest mystery we recognize
                     Is how the Universe has come to be,
                     And yet for all our science it defies
                     Our fruitless probes into Reality.

                    Yes, science has revealed some of its laws
                    That chemistry and physics have explained,
                    But still we have no knowledge what first cause
                    Brought it all forth, and how it is sustained.

                    Good Orderly Direction, nicknamed GOD,
                    Has given rise to our mythology
                    That postulates we have been made from sod,
                    The artifact of a grand deity,

                          For it seems simple logic to suppose
                          That ultimately like from like arose.

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