Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! <br /> Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. <br /> Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, <br /> Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? <br /> How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, <br /> Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering <br /> To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, <br /> Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? <br /> Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? <br /> And driven the Hamadryad from the wood <br /> To seek a shelter in some happier star? <br /> Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, <br /> The Elfin from the green grass, and from me <br /> The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?<br /><br />Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-to-science-2/
