There is a vice in the world's reasoning. Man Has conquered knowledge. He has conquered power; He has traced out the universal plan Of the Earth's being; and in this last hour He has unmade the God which he had made. I cannot doubt but he at length has read The riddle of the Earth; that he is wise. He also hath dominion charterèd Over the lands, the oceans, and the skies, Which toil and sweat to give him daily bread. —Knowledge he hath, and power upon the Earth, And long ago he had himself been God, But for the cruel secret of his birth, Which gave him kindred with the dust he trod, And for the hideous ending of his mirth, A fly-blown carrion festering 'neath the sod. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ASPECTA MEDUSA by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI FOR THOSE AT SEA; HYMN by WILLIAM WHITING COCK UP YOUR BEAVER by ROBERT BURNS THE LAMENT OF THE OUTALISSI by THOMAS CAMPBELL IN THE HOUSE OF IDIEDAILY by BLISS CARMAN |