Page:Ferishtah's fancies - Browning (1884).djvu/38

This page has been validated.
30
FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Who, aping wisdom all beyond his years,Thinks to discard humanity itself:Fares like the beast which should affect to flyBecause a bird with wings may spurn the ground,So, missing heaven and losing earth—drops howBut hell-wards? No, be man and nothing more—Man who, as man conceiving, hopes and fears,And craves and deprecates, and loves, and loathes,And bids God help him, till death touch his eyesAnd show God granted most, denying all."

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.