Edgar Allan Poe Quote

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?


"The Rationale of Verse", III (1848); this is comparable to: ""What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke / A conscious Something to resent the yoke", FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám.


Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?