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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