WONDER OF WONDERS

     Just think of it: the Universe made us!
     And since that’s so, imagine what all else
     Such cosmogenic machination does,
     What other wonder within space-time dwells,

     For surely we cannot live here alone,
     Although as yet we don’t know otherwise,
     But we must have the intellect to hone
     In on the hidden cosmic enterprise.

     And yet for us at last to comprehend
     These occult universal mysteries,
     Discovering where futurity may tend,
     We first must mend our disabilities:

          That sapience for which we’re doubly named
          Must finally and wonderfully be claimed.

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