| Untimely | |
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| Nothing in life has been made by man for man's using | |
| But it was shown long since to man in ages | |
| Lost as the name of the maker of it, | |
| Who received oppression and shame for his wages-- | |
| Hate, avoidance, and scorn in his daily dealings-- | |
| Until he perished, wholly confounded | |
| More to be pitied than he are the wise | |
| Souls which foresaw the evil of loosing | |
| Knowledge or Art before time, and aborted | |
| Noble devices and deep-wrought healings, | |
| Lest offense should arise. | |
| Heaven delivers on earth the Hour that cannot be | |
| thwarted, | |
| Neither advanced, at the price of a world nor a soul, | |
| and its Prophet | |
| Comes through the blood of the vanguards who | |
| dreamed--too soon--it had sounded. | |
| -- Rudyard Kipling |