A Century of Sonnets
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2 I MAN AND NATURE ' nniS the chief source of man's unhappiness That he regards himself as Nature's crown, To favour whom Fate should relax its stress, And never on his greatness dare to frown : How small his part upon the Eternal Stage, What petty passions rage within his breast, His microscopic vision cannot gauge, But magnifies his actions worst and best To huge proportions. Let him learn at last He's but a bubble on the ocean wave, A grain of sand upon the seashore vast : This learned all's... learned ; for then he will not crave More than his due, since this the knowledge brings Of his true place in the great scheme of things.
22 THE PARADOX OF CREATION A SPECK within a boundless Universe His home, and he an atom on that speck, The slave of tyrant forces that coerce His will, and all his aspirations check ; And yet a being made to dominate The world of sense by mind's controlling power : Spoiled favourite at once and sport of fate, Time's fool indeed, yet its consummate flower ! Alone did Nature to his soul impart A spark of her divinest energy, Power to create the wondrous world of art, And gave, in giving thought, her master key : So great and yet so little !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
2 I MAN AND NATURE ' nniS the chief source of man's unhappiness That he regards himself as Nature's crown, To favour whom Fate should relax its stress, And never on his greatness dare to frown : How small his part upon the Eternal Stage, What petty passions rage within his breast, His microscopic vision cannot gauge, But magnifies his actions worst and best To huge proportions. Let him learn at last He's but a bubble on the ocean wave, A grain of sand upon the seashore vast : This learned all's... learned ; for then he will not crave More than his due, since this the knowledge brings Of his true place in the great scheme of things.
22 THE PARADOX OF CREATION A SPECK within a boundless Universe His home, and he an atom on that speck, The slave of tyrant forces that coerce His will, and all his aspirations check ; And yet a being made to dominate The world of sense by mind's controlling power : Spoiled favourite at once and sport of fate, Time's fool indeed, yet its consummate flower ! Alone did Nature to his soul impart A spark of her divinest energy, Power to create the wondrous world of art, And gave, in giving thought, her master key : So great and yet so little !
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