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/
