Rosemary and Pansies/Knowledge not Wisdom
KNOWLEDGE NOT WISDOM
Along the path of science as we go
Each day some new discovery repays
Our eager quest, that searches high and low,
And ever grows more skilled in nature's ways:
No star so distant it escapes our ken,
No atom which we cannot analyse,
No element we drag not from its den
To yield its secret to our prying eyes,—
Yes, yes, all this is so, and, if yon please,
'Tis proper we much jubilation show,
But yet with all this marvellous increase
Of knowledge do we better, wiser grow?
Small is the measure of our boasted gain.
If knowledge bring not wisdom in its train.