God created man. He breathed into the mould His sacred breath, and from the base arose A prodigy of earth! Supreme o'er finite things And heir to infinite. Creative power He gave In all save life. As dwelling place He loaned The gem of all His millioned stars, He bade man live;—live, and joy in life; Man was the glory of God! God created man. The power He gave to clay Grew insolent and arrogated all to self; Denied the right to create life, man joyed And reveled in destruction's fearful might. He killed, yet not content with slaughter of the brute, The instruments of death he hurled upon his kind For fancied wrongs. The Universe sheds tears. Man is the shame of God! |