If I could have lived another year <br />I could have finished my flying machine, <br />And become rich and famous. <br />Hence it is fitting the workman <br />Who tried to chisel a dove for me <br />Made it look more like a chicken. <br />For what is it all but being hatched, <br />And running about the yard, <br />To the day of the block? <br />Save that a man has an angel's brain, <br />And sees the ax from the first!<br /><br />Edgar Lee Masters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/franklin-jones/
