So in the dusk you sit you down to plan

Some fresh confusion for the heart of man.

III.

Lover of Chaos and the Sacred Seven!

Scorner of Midas and St. Francis, too!

Wearied of earth, yet dubious of Heaven,

Fain of old follies and of pastures new—

Why should the great, whose spirits haunt the void

Between Orion and the Northern Wain,

Make you their mouthpiece? Why have they employed