Than my own god-grand language to declare,—

The fawning, cozenage and calumny

Wherewith such favorite feeds the populace

That fan and set him flying for reward:—

I who, detecting what vice underlies

Thought's superstructure,—fancy's sludge and slime

'Twixt fact's sound floor and thought's mere surface-growth

Of hopes and fears which root no deeplier down

Than where all such mere fungi breed and bloat—

Namely, man's misconception of the God:—