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Our kind delights to take apart the whole,

and scatter its fragments with horrible

pleasure.  We always seize and spill the cup

so that it never is more than half full.

Through many shrieks of selfishness,  the wraith---

of prejudicial angers, rages, wraths---

incarnates in the strawing man, and vaunts

itself, luring the victims that it haunts

(with suave persuasion and not brute coercion)  

to stray off from the good way and old paths

toward strange and shadowed venues of perversion.

How can we, then, find knowledge of the soul;

with our propensity to screw it up?---

we can obtain it, now, only by Faith.