Throughout this infinite universe I heard

The music of one law.

Is man alone

Belied by all the signs of his ascent?

Are men even now so far above the beasts?

What can the tiger teach them when they kill?

Are they so vain that they’d deny the bones

An inch beneath their skin—bones that when stripped

Of flesh and mixed with those of their dumb kin

Themselves could not distinguish? How they clung