When the giants olden knew not toil nor hunger?

When no pain nor malice marred joy's full completeness,

And life's honeyed chalice rapt the soul with sweetness?

When the restless river of time loved to linger;

Ere flesh felt the quiver of death's dissolving finger;

When man's intuition led without deflection,

To a sure fruition, and a full perfection.

Individual man is ever new created:

What his being's plan is, loosely predicated

On the circumstances of his sole condition,