Herman Melville

“ Seductive draws rich minds away;
Some pastures, too, yield many a rover: ⁠100
Sheep, sheep and shepherd running over.
"Such sheep and shepherds, let them go;
They are not legion: and you know
What draws. ”

“ Shameful and shameless. Men get sick
Under that curse of Frederick
The cynical: For punishment
This rebel province I present ⁠135
To the philosophers. But, how?
Whole nations now philosophize,
And do their own undoing now.--
Who's gained by all the sacrifice
Of Europe's revolutions? who? ⁠140
The Protestant? the Liberal? ”

“ To reverence naught, not even herself."
"How say you? you're the queerest elf!
But here's a thought I still pursuc
A thought I dreamed each thinker knew: ⁠160
No more can men be what they've been;
All's altered--earth's another scene."
"Man's heart is what it used to be." ”