For until the Song of the Poet is heard

Ye do not live, ye can not live.

O noonday ghosts that gabble of losing and gaining,

Pitiful paupers that starve in the plenteous midmost

Of bounty unbounded.

Didst thou make me?

Some say yea.

Did I make thee?

Some say yea.

Oh, am I then thy son, O God,