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The poem is quite up beat for a "ballad for gloom." Pound is one of those
people who like to fight their way into some kind of faith. For him, God
is an opponent, a gamester who he plays with, and loses to, but in the end
wins. This paradox is central to the poem.
Dan Fairchild