Herman Melville

“ Shrewd are ye, the main chance ye heed:
Has God quite lost his throne indeed ⁠165
That lukewarm now ye grow? Wilt own,
Council ye take with fossil-stone?
Your sects do nowadays create
Churches as worldly as the state. ”

“ Of winds succeeds the howl; so here
In poise of heart and altered tone
With Ungar. Respite brief though dear
It proved; for he: "This type's assigned ⁠35
To One who sharing not man's mind
Partook man's frame ”

“ Does but the more their ignorance show--
Nay, them to peril more expose--
Is as the ring in the bull's nose
Whereby a pert boy turns and winds ⁠110
This monster of a million minds.
Men owned true masters ”