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HUMAN NATURE

The ocean, holding pure the azure's blue,

Laughs at the tempests, with one empire's dust

After an other, to round out Earth's crust.

Ah, so does Human Nature hold the hue

It takes from heaven, its conscience, and laughs, too,

At madness, wrecking life and with its gust

Forming new islands, where Pride, Greed, or Lust,

Welcomes the crater's glare, in sun-light's lieu.