Classic Poem

Man, who by youth beguiled has trusted time and thriven —
Man, from whose tortured lips the lie to life was given —
Man, dumbly reconciled to suffer where he had striven —
Simpleton, accuser, and acceptor, each in turn
Mortality's enigma must enact and learn,
Till, in the presence of his one deliverer, death,
" Take not Thy holy Spirit from us, Lord," Man saith.