Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard
For buying an engine so powerful
That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder
He ran it with.
But here is a joke of cosmic size:
The urge of nature that made a man
Evolve from his brain a spiritual life-
Oh miracle of the world!-
The very same brain with which the ape and wolf
Get food and shelter and procreate themselves.
Nature has made man do this,
In a world where she gives him nothing to do
After all-(though the strength of his soul goes round
In a futile waste of power,
To gear itself to the mills of the gods)-
But get food and shelter and procreate himself!
Professor Newcomer
Edgar Lee Masters
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Poem topics: life, power, strength, soul, joke, miracle, cosmic, gear, waste, spiritual, food, nature, world, brain, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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