He gibes my poet! There 's a dog-faced dwarf

That gets to godship somehow, yet retains

His apehood in the Egyptian hierarchy,

More decent, indecorous just enough:

Why should not dog-ape, graced in due degree,

Grow Momos as thou Zeus? Or didst thou sigh

Rightly with thy Makaria? "After life,

Better no sentiency than turbulence;

Death cures the low contention." Be it so!

Yet progress means contention, to my mind.