Rosemary and Pansies/Matthew Arnold
He looked around upon a world of wrong With sorrowing spirit, pity infinite; He saw the weak made victims of the strong, And obscene darkness triumph over light: He saw that men unmoved by argument, Who turned away with scorn from wisdom's school, Shrank from the lash of satire's chastisement, And feared the laughing lips of ridicule: He saw the falseness of the common creeds And cared not to conceal his deep disdain,Yet from himself could not root out the weeds Convention had implanted in his brain; And so he failed to see 'twas a vain task To pour new wine into an outworn cask.