2 Whose way was the hardest of all.
3 They died by the amillions,
4 Without a clue,
5 Because their bnumber was finally up.
6 No matter how hard they searched for the reason,
7 No matter how hard they prayed for salvation,
8 They died in the darkness of random disaster,
9 Without ever breaking the faceless code,
10 Of the virus that cmocked their absent savior.
11 And so you conclude that their faith was in error,
12 And long overdue for replacement with dscience,
13 Which lets us live longer, and longer, and longer,
14 For no higher price than demoting a God,
15 eWho breathes death and destruction in every prayer,
16 And swaddles the world in fignorant fear.
17 But what about the Bubonites,
18 Who kept right on believing,
19 And gsearched for new life in the midst of the slaughter,
20 Because of their faith in hjudgement hereafter?
21 Who refused to surrender to damn-it-all pleasure,
22 And labored to frame new iquestions and answers,
23 In the hope of regaining the love of their jmaster?
24 You'd set them straight if you were there,
25 With your love of kgerms and lsterile water,
26 But would a plague in your world of chance,
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27 Give rise to a brilliant mRenaissance?
CHAPTER 161 The way of the Giants was genius,
2 nTitanic and human and fine.
3 They tried their hand at everything,
4 And bathed in new oideas.
5 They believed in God,
6 And in pMankind too,
7 Because God had dreamed of Man.
8 What they started is not over,
9 qTill Man learns to love himself again,
10 And trust the mission the Giants launched,
11 To know rcreation's swealth.
12 Now if you think they were fools to try,
13 And set the twrong ball in motion,
14 Then maybe it's just that you lack the guts,
15 To believe that cynics are wrong:
16 But remember that cynics were scoffing in droves,
17 While the Giants were going to town,
18 And telling the world how pointless it is,
19 To try proving the earth is uround.
CHAPTER 171 The way of the Explorers is a way that apes don't know.
2 They wanted to vgo where no one had been,
3 And see what no one had seen.
4 And if you can believe that their quest can be turned,
5 Into proof of man's avarice and murderous greed,
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