If the foolish, call them flowers --
Need the wiser, tell?
If the Savants Classify them
It is just as well!
Those who read the Revelations
Must not criticize
Those who read the same Edition --
With beclouded Eyes!
Could we stand with that Old Moses --
Canaan denied --
Scan like him, the stately landscape
On the other side --
Doubtless, we should deem superfluous
Many Sciences,
Not pursued by learned Angels
In scholastic skies!
Low amid that glad Belles lettres
Grant that we may stand,
Stars, amid profound Galaxies --
At that grand Right hand!