Although now long estranged
Man is not wholly lost or wholly changed.
Disgraced he may be, yet he is not de-throned, and keep the rags of lordship he once owned:
Man, sub-creator, the refracted light
through whom is splintered from a single white
to many hues and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light and sowed the seed of dragons 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed: we make still by the law in which we're made.
Man is not wholly lost or wholly changed.
Disgraced he may be, yet he is not de-throned, and keep the rags of lordship he once owned:
Man, sub-creator, the refracted light
through whom is splintered from a single white
to many hues and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light and sowed the seed of dragons 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed: we make still by the law in which we're made.