KNOW THEN THYSELF - ALEXANDER POPE

This podcast is the sound recording of the poetry of Alexander Pope  / Essay On A Man. I hope you enjoy it. Here is the link if you want to listen it please click here. You can see  the transcription in the below as well. 

Transcription:

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; 

The proper study of mankind is man. 

Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, 

A being darkly wise, and rudely great: 

With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 

With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, 

He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; 

In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; 

In doubt his mind or body to prefer; 

Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; 

Alike in ignorance, his reason such, 

Whether he thinks too little, or too much: 

Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd; 

Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; 

Created half to rise, and half to fall; 

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; 

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: 

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 

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