Diogenes with a lantern sought an honest man in Athens.
His lantern shining on a summer's day, To pierce the darkness of the human soul, His pace deliberate, seeking on his way, To find a man of only virtue full. An idle quest, a philosophic stunt? For surely roses cannot bloom in caves; That man of virtue would the Furies hunt, An angel cannot swim a sea of knaves. But let us cast that light in different light, Not if a man can be what cannot be, But if one holds a candle in the night, And choose a raft to be on moody sea? For full perfection shall not grace this Earth, But in the little things, lies life its worth.
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