Fragments+of+a+Lost+Gnostic+Poem+of+the+Twelfth+Century

>> **// by: Herman Melville (1819-1891) //** OUND a family, build a state,The pledged event is still the same:Matter in end will never abateHis ancient brutal claim. Indolence is heaven's ally here,And energy the child of hell:The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clearBut brims the poisoned well.