Speckled with suns, or this the millionth—thing,

How shall I call?—that on some insect's wing

Helps to make out in dyes the mimic star?

Weak, ignorant, accordingly we are:

What then? The worse for Nature! Where began

Righteousness, moral sense except in Man?

True, he makes nothing, understands no whit:

Had the initiator-spasm seen fit

Thus doubly to endow him, none the worse

And much the better were the universe.