"Old things need not be therefore true," <br />O brother men, nor yet the new; <br />Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, <br />And yet consider it again! <br /> <br />The souls of now two thousand years <br />Have laid up here their toils and tears, <br />And all the earnings of their pain,-- <br />Ah, yet consider it again! <br /> <br />We! what do we see? each a space <br />Of some few yards before his face; <br />Does that the whole wide plan explain? <br />Ah, yet consider it again! <br /> <br />Alas! the great world goes its way, <br />And takes its truth from each new day; <br />They do not quit, nor can retain, <br />Far less consider it again.<br /><br />Arthur Hugh Clough<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ah-yet-consider-it-again/
