Why waste your voice, extolling men on earth,
Who don’t deserve the smallest praise, you give?
Why waste your life in earthly aims since birth,
When there are better things for which to live?
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Thought provoking poem. I agree and yet at the same time ponder Robert Browning's admonition that 'A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for! ' as well as my own maxim of 'Why shouldn't God have an expectation for good concerning my life and that of others! '