Professor Newcomer + 

Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard + 

For buying an engine so powerful + 

That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder + 

He ran it with. + 

But here is a joke of cosmic size: + 

The urge of nature that made a man + 

Evolve from his brain a spiritual life⁠— + 

Oh miracle of the world!⁠— + 

The very same brain with which the ape and wolf + 

Get food and shelter and procreate themselves. + 

Nature has made man do this, + 

In a world where she gives him nothing to do + 

After all⁠—(though the strength of his soul goes round + 

In a futile waste of power, + 

To gear itself to the mills of the gods)⁠— + 

But get food and shelter and procreate himself! + 