MAN
by: John Davies (1569-1626)
- KNOW my soul hath power to know
all things,
- Yet she is blind and ignorant in all.
- I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
- Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
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- I know my life's a pain and but a span;
- I know my sense is mock'd in everything;
- And, to conclude, I know myself a Man--
- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
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