Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,

And lack of love from love made manifest;

A lamp's death when, replete with oil, it chokes;

A stomach's when, surcharged with food, it starves.

With ignorance was surety of a cure.

When man, appalled at nature, questioned first,

'What if there lurk a might behind this might?'

He needed satisfaction God could give,

And did give, as ye have the written word:

But when he finds might still redouble might,