“We have made them fools and weak!” said the Strong Ones:
“We have bound them, they are dumb and deaf and blind;
We have crushed them in our hands like a heap of crumbling sands,
We have left them naught to seek or find:
They are quiet at our feet!” said the Strong Ones;
“We have made them one with wood and stone and clod;
Serf and laborer and woman, they are less than wise or human!—--”
“I shall raise the weak!” saith God.
“They are stirring in the dark!” said the Strong Ones,
“They are struggling, who were moveless like the dead;