I should have been a plumber fixing drains. <br />And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes <br />(who scorned all lies, all liars, and all tyrannies), <br /> <br />And then, perhaps, he would bestow on me -- majesty! <br />(O modesty aside, forgive my fallen pride, O hidden <br /> majesty, <br />The lamp, the lantern, the lucid light he sought for <br /> <br /> All too often -- sick humanity!)<br /><br />Delmore Schwartz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/albert-einstein-to-archibald-macleish/
