By the dull minds of those who dwell at ease. 

 Weak reasoners that ye are, ye have essay'd 

 To speak for God. Suppose ye He doth need 

 Such advocacy? whose creative hand 

 Holdeth the soul of every living thing, 

 And breath of all mankind? 

 He breaketh down, 

 And who can build again? Princes and kings 

 Are nothing in his sight. Disrobed of power 

 Ceaseless they wander and He heedeth not. 

 Those whom the world have worship'd seem as fools. 

 He lifteth up the nations at His will, 

 Or sweeps them with his lightest breath away 

 Like noteless atoms. 

 Silence is for you 

 The truest wisdom. Creatures that ye count 

 Inferior to yourselves, who in thin air 

 Spread the light wing, or thro' the waters glide, 

 Or roam the earth, might teach if ye would hear 

 And be instructed by them. 

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