Why are wee by all creatures waited on? <br />Why doe the prodigall elements supply <br />Life and food to mee, being more pure than I, <br />Simple, and further from corruption? <br />Why brook'st thou, ignorant horse, subjection? <br />Why dost thou bull, and bore so seelily <br />Dissemble weaknesse, and by one mans stroke die, <br />Whose whole kinde, you might swallow and feed upon? <br />Weaker I am, woe is mee, and worse than you, <br />You have not sinn'd, nor need be timorous. <br />But wonder at a greater wonder, for to us <br />Created nature doth these things subdue, <br />But their Creator, whom sin, nor nature tyed, <br />For us, his Creatures, and his foes, hath dyed.<br /><br />John Donne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/holy-sonnet-xii-why-are-we/
