How immensity spreads does he guess? Not a whit.

Does he care? Just as little. Without? No, within

Concerns him? he Knows. Man Ignores—thanks to Thee

Who madest him know, but—in knowing—begin

To know still new vastness of knowledge must be

Outside him—to enter, to traverse, in fee

Have and hold! "Oh, Man's ignorance!" hear the fool whine!

How were it, for better or worse, didst thou grunt

Contented with sapience—the lot of the swine

Who knows he was born for just truffles to hunt?—