Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days Before the coming of the age of light, Wrought mightily to pierce the veil of mystery That hid the face of night. . . . Said once to an aspiring youth who sought In vain to cast a temple-plan, "Go find your measurements from life, Build in the shadow of a Man." Far-sighted wisdom had the sage. His words the rolling years outran And prophesied beyond the veil of time The coming of the Man. But when He came for all the world, The world set all His worth at loss And in the shadow of the Man Could only build a Cross. Disdaining to employ the shadow of the Man, Now is the vengeance on us hurled, Within the shadow of the Cross, our task Is to rebuild the world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WIFE IN LONDON by THOMAS HARDY THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER COSMIC BLESSINGS by SISTER BENEDICTION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHO YOU ARE I KNOW NOT by EDWARD CARPENTER NURSERY RHYME by MARTIN CHESLEY SONG OF THE INDIAN MOTHER by JAMES GOWDY CLARK |