Invincible
See! how man,
Exalted---in his eyes---
Flies in the face of all
Th'immortal universe,
And says, “I will prevail!
I will have triumph!”
And flings his arms, outstretched,
To heaven's skies---
Then crumples to the earth
In his mortality.
He is no master;
He is as the bird
Whose fragile form before
The roaring ocean
Dances, thinking himself
Invincible,
And then is swept away
By holy rage---
By wrath which threw
The tow'rs of Babylon
Into the earth,
Gave Egypt's army
To the sea,
And burned the city of Lot,
With all its evil.
And, looking up, man spies
With growing terror
The fearsome anger
Of the Great Almighty,
And trembles, seeing now
What he has spurned,
And covers his face
With arms he thought touch'd Heaven.
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