Rosemary and Pansies/Man's Greatness and Littleness
MAN'S GREATNESS AND LITTLENESS
His home a speck in a vast Universe, He a mere atom on that tiny speck, Victim of countless evils that coerce And force him onward on a pathless track; And yet a being made to dominate O'er all things else by mind's controlling power: Spoiled favourite at once and sport of fate, Football of fortune, time's consummate flower! To him alone did nature's self impart A spark of her divinest energy, With power to create the world of Art, And intellect to solve all mystery: So great and yet so little! blessed and cursed,— Nature's most noble offspring—yet her worst!