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+------ Thema: It were a state too terrible for man, (/showthread.php?tid=17550)
It were a state too terrible for man, - ZaunköniG - 01.03.2008
It were a state too terrible for man,
Too terrible and strange, and most unmeer,
To look into himself, his state to scan,
And find no precedent, no chart, or plan,
But think himself an embryo incomplete,
Or else a remnant of a world effete,
Some by-blow of the universal Pan,
Great Nature's waif, that must by law escheat
To the liege-lord Corruption. Sad the case
Of man, who knows not wherefore he was made;
But he that knows the limits of his race
Not runs, but flies, with prosperous winds to aid;
Or if he limps, he knows his path was trod
By saints of old, who knew their way to God.