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Nobility, What of It

Nobility, What of it? Why are we inspired by men of old? What passion strikes us by speakers bold? Of the will of living and noble stories told . Is it a searching of something within? To seek and bring forth triumphant nobility? To tell tales of men nobler then even believable and thus we believe and perhaps become the nobler Even if it be in the smallest measure. Ha! what simple creatures are we ,that upon some fantastic hour we might become some heroic entity. What a dance we do! What a play we display! Lest God may look down upon us laughingly shaking his head....

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Date: 9/21/2019 12:07:00 PM
I like this poem but am wondering if the last line might hit harder with a rhyme with "play" and "display?" Something like, "Lest He may look down laughing, God's head shaking nay."
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