There once stood a man,
  Master of his world -
  But alas, he is no more,
  Though the world remains.
 

     This page is predominantly black.  It breaks, jaggedly, into a section of white in the center of the page, where the poem is written in the black, gothic script.  A white moon is drawn in the upper right-hand corner of the page.  In the lower left-hand corner, an elderly figure in a blue robe sits on a rock and contemplates his reflection in a puddle while he stirs it with a branch/cane which he holds in his right hand.
     Though some see this poem as a statement about the irrelevance of christianity in the modern world, (They interpret "a man" to mean Jesus Christ)  I think this is merely a restatement of sentiments already expressed in previous poems regarding the futility of man's existence.


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        The music playing is "He loves!  If, in the bygone years..." by Sir Arthur Sullivan from 'Iolanthe'.   It was sequenced by David Cooke and downloaded from David Cooke's Corner of the Public Domain.

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