See in the second son—humanity,

Wrong-headed yet right-hearted, rash but kind.

Last comes the cackler of the brood, our chit

Who, aping wisdom all beyond his years,

Thinks to discard humanity itself:

Fares like the beast which should affect to fly

Because a bird with wings may spurn the ground,

So, missing heaven and losing; earth—drops how

But hell-ward? No, be man and nothing more—

Man who, as man conceiving, hopes and fears,