O Prometheus! Thou spake so well of man
That Zeus suspected fraudulent design.
He couldn’t know that thou so gently wise
Had vision in creation for its own.
For Zeus—when usurpation was in vogue—
Did abrogate mortal ken like a common rogue
By cringing ’top Olympus where he burned
Life’s fuel in hushed incestuous bed.
Pleasure lacking higher motive stoops
To Lotus eating and arty foppery.
Aye, thy wisdom kindled hot my blood,
Seething fierce my heart, to brand an epitaph:
Prometheus, brother to Christ!
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