Of his own passionate truth; the harsh pained cry

For truth, for truth, of one who saw the throng

Bewildered and astray, the ways of love

Grown tortuous, and the path to heaven grown dim

Through man’s unheed for truth.

I saw him greet

Condorcet, at the Academy. “We have lost

Two members. I condole with you, my friend.

It is their last éloges you’ll speak to-day!

How will you bury their false theories?