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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: LXXXIX
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THE LIMIT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
 There is a vice in the world`s reasoning. Man
 Has conquered knowledge. He has conquered power;
 He has traced out the universal plan
 Of the Earth`s being; and in this last hour
 He has unmade the God which he had made.
 I cannot doubt but he at length has read
 The riddle of the Earth; that he is wise.
 He also hath dominion charterèd
 Over the lands, the oceans, and the skies,
 Which toil and sweat to give him daily bread.
 --Knowledge he hath, and power upon the Earth,
 And long ago he had himself been God,
 But for the cruel secret of his birth,
 Which gave him kindred with the dust he trod,
 And for the hideous ending of his mirth,
 A fly--blown carrion festering `neath the sod.
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