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 |