If we found words there would come no wind that would fan them

To a tune that the trumpets might blow it,

Shrill through the heaven that’s ours or yet Allah’s,

Or the wide halls of any Valhallas.

We can make no such anthem. So that all that is ours

For inditing in sonnets, pantoums, elegiacs, or lays

Is this:

“In the name of God, how could they do it?”

II

For there is no new thing under the sun,