Man, the egregious egoist <br />(In mystery the twig is bent) <br />Imagines, by some mental twist, <br />That he alone is sentient <br /> <br />Of the intolerable load <br />That on all living creatures lies, <br />Nor stoops to pity in the toad <br />The speechless sorrow of his eyes. <br /> <br />He asks no questions of the snake, <br />Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom <br />Where lidless fishes, broad awake, <br />Swim staring at a nightmare doom.<br /><br />Elinor Morton Wylie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cold-blooded-creatures/
