Good question. Richard and Julie make valid points. "Gd" could also mean "God damn" - as in, "drink up for we are damned."
Added in: It would, on the other hand, be a mistake to assume that the poem means an English analog to the Tetragrammaton. Ed is going in the opposite direction of no God or God that damns.
Last edited by Don Jones; 06-21-2016 at 01:02 PM.
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