A nobler, longer life.
By thought alone we take our stand
Above the world and win command.’
1. ‘Know, Knowledge doth but clip our wings,
And worldly Wisdom weaken worth,
To make us lords of little things,
And worm-gods of the earth.
Were earth made Heaven by human wit,
Some wild star yet might shatter it.’
2. ‘The wings of Fancy are but frail,