How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at inter
        vals,) 
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
How they inure to themselves as much as to any - what a paradox 
        appears their age, 
How people respond to them, yet know them not,
How there is something relentless in their fate all times,
How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and re
        ward, 
And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same 
        great purchase. 


 = Chris Daniels