Henry Septimus Sutton (1825-1901). Poems. VIII. Man. Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Poems.
VIII. Man

By Henry Septimus Sutton (1825–1901)


MAN doth usurp all space,
Stares thee in rock, bush, river, in the face.
Never yet thine eyes beheld a tree;
’Tis no sea thou seest in the sea,
’Tis but a disguised humanity.	5
To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan;
All that interests a man is man.