Shapes of Clay

NOVUM ORGANUM.

  In Bacon see the culminating prime
  Of Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime. 
  He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,
  Parts his endowments among us, his heirs: 
  To every one a pinch of brain for seed,
  And, to develop it, a pinch of greed. 
  Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice,
  Buries the talent to manure the vice.