Is blank and cannot read.
Suppose it knows of living and dead
and the things these things both need.
What then shall we all must do?
To make this mind that great.
Reason says "they are but new
to soon yet, to speculate."
But suppose that then it's just been born.
How shall we then must act?
As sheep to shepherd's clippers shorn,
we fill them up with facts.
We make them learn the books on our shelf,
and steal, for our own, any trace of their self.
The meter gets kind of weird in a few of the lines, and you should never compromise substance for iambs, but I love the two last lines.
ReplyDeleteI also think the rhymes from lines 6-9 are genious